China agrees to send six thousand construction workers to Israel
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| Chinese workers in the port of Asdod - Occupied Palestine |
Beijing and Tel Aviv have come to an agreement to alleviate the "housing crisis" in Israel by China sending around 6,000 construction workers over a six-month period.
The joint statement was released by Israel’s finance and interior ministries on Wednesday despite the agreement not being signed until February.
Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon was quoted in the statement as saying that the workers’ arrival would “energize efforts to solve the housing crisis.”
“The Chinese workers will reduce the construction time, and bring down prices for the benefit of the public,” said Israeli Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel.
It is not known whether these houses will be constructed in illegal settlements in Palestine's West Bank.
Housing costs in Israel have been rising steeply since 2008, according to Bank of Israel data, significantly impacting the cost of living and triggering a wave of street protests in 2011.
Kahlon, whose Kulanu party ran in the 2015 general election on a platform of lowering living costs, came under fire after an August government report showed apartment prices had risen by 8 percent in a year.
Replacement:
Since the second Intifada rise in 2000, Israel has been trying to decrease the Palestinian labor work with a foreign one mostly contracting with the Chinese private sector.
It’s worth noticing that the Chinese government tried to keep neutral relations with Israel in order to maintain its relations with the Arab world and the Arab gulf countries in particular.
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