Musaard said For Axios The American said that the President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, rejected a request from the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to pay the wages of Palestinian workers in the West Bank who were prevented by Israel from entering its territory after the Hamas attack on October 7.
The sources reported that the UAE President sarcastically told Netanyahu: “Ask Zelensky for money,” referring to the Ukrainian president.
The website said that this position highlights the position of many Arab countries that said they would not pay the bill for maintaining the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the war.
An Emirati official told Axios: “The idea that Arab countries will come to rebuild and pay the bill for what is currently happening is just wishful thinking.”
Israel imposed strict restrictions on the entry of Palestinians after Hamas attacks, and thousands of foreign farm workers left southern Israel.
Israeli newspapers said that the government intends to lay off thousands of Palestinian workers whose entry into Israel has been restricted and to employ about 80,000 foreign workers, which raised concerns about the rights of Palestinian workers and the security and economic risks this step entails.
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Israeli reports stated that the Israeli government intends to lay off thousands of Palestinian workers whose entry into Israel was restricted after the Hamas attack and to employ about 80,000 foreign workers, which raised concerns about the rights of Palestinian workers and the security and economic risks this step entails, as well as raising concerns also related to the rights of foreign workers.
Israeli ministers, led by right-wing Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, rejected a proposal from the Israeli Ministry of Defense to allow some Palestinian workers to enter Israel.
Despite pressure exerted by the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Shin Bet, Netanyahu chose not to put the issue to a vote in the security cabinet after Smotrich and other right-wing ministers threatened to resign.
The American website stated that in an attempt to find a solution to the issue without having to confront members of his coalition, Netanyahu tried to persuade other countries to pay the wages of Palestinian workers.
An Israeli official and a source familiar with the matter said that Netanyahu turned to Mohammed bin Zayed a few weeks ago and asked for help, and the latter expressed his willingness to provide assistance, but when Netanyahu specifically asked whether the UAE was prepared to pay the wages of Palestinian workers, “the Emirati president was astonished.” , according to the informed source.
According to the source, Mohammed bin Zayed did not believe that Netanyahu believed that he would be willing to pay the price for a problem that occurred due to Israel’s decision to prevent the entry of these workers.
The Israeli official and the informed source said that Mohammed bin Zayed told Netanyahu that he could not do this, then he sarcastically suggested to Netanyahu that he turn to the Ukrainian president, and told him that Zelensky “gets a lot of money from many countries so perhaps he can help him,” according to the sources. .
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and the Emirati Embassy in Washington refused to comment to the American website.
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