Kenya follows Malawi in sending casual farm workers to fill a labour shortage on Israel's farms.
  • BigFigEnglish
    8•10 months ago

    Israel can’t take care of their own farms? In a war they are dominating?

    • @Wodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14•10 months ago

      I’m guessing they usually have Palestinians doing the hard labour, and they’re probably not really available at the moment…

      • @voidMainVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        The article says that 360,000 reservists have been sent to fight, as well. Typical wartime stuff: not enough workers at home because they’re fighting in the war.

            • @filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3•10 months ago

              Because it is hard work with low wages. And most developed countries are hiring immigrants to do such work for them.

              I can imagine that a very low percentage of the occupied working force in the agricultural sector are Israelis and that majority are Palestinians, Thais, etc. since Israel cut all work permits to Palestinians including those living in the West bank they have opened a huge hole in their Labor market and are currently trying to fill with North Africans.

              • R0cket_M00seEnglish
                0•10 months ago

                Because it is hard work with low wages.

                Yeah all those wealthy soldiers just making buku bucks before they get called to active duty, soldiers definitely aren’t a bunch of lower class people working unskilled labor in their spare time.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    “We are looking to East Africa to fill the labour gap as we have had student internships programmes in place for many years with these countries and it has been a good experience,” Mr Lotem said.

    In 2018, a BBC investigation found that many migrant farm workers in Israel were subject to unsafe working practices and squalid, unsanitary living conditions.

    Some Kenyans have supported the deal, saying it provides badly needed jobs at a time when Kenya is battling an unemployment crisis and the rising cost of living.

    Malawi’s government has also announced that it will send 5,000 more young people to work on Israeli farms, rejecting calls to drop the plan.

    “People are going out of desperation,” said William Kambwandira, the executive director at the Centre for Social Accountability and Transparency, a workers’ rights watchdog based in the capital Lilongwe.

    Asked if he was worried for his personal safety, Mr Kupatamoyo replied: "I was already aware about the conflict in Israel, but there is a lot of fake news on social media.

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  • ShroOmericEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    I’m sure they will be treated with absolute respect, in an apartheid state. It’ll probably noy so different from going to work in Qatar.