China forbids its construction workers from building Israeli settlements – report

‘Israel’s talks on migrant workers with China are deadlocked due to Beijing refusing to allow its citizens to participate in the construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank, a high-ranked Israeli official told AFP.

“We are negotiating with China for an agreement on the arrival of thousands of additional workers,” an unnamed government official said.

According to the source, there are several stumbling blocks to the talks at the moment, including “the employment of these immigrants in settlements in Judea and Samaria [in the West Bank].”’

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