‘90% have lost their jobs’: War plunges West Bank construction workers into poverty Some 160,000 Palestinian workers used to cross over into Israel from the West Bank every day, the vast majority of them construction workers. But ever since the Hamas-led attack on October 7, they have been banned from entering, plunging many into unemployment and poverty. And for Israel too, it’s been a massive financial hit. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris Trent, Ludovic de Foucaud and Mohamed Farhat report.