Foreign workers at settlements in the Gaza Strip will be relocated to Israel. The Industry and Trade Ministry said Thursday that some 800 foreign farm hands, most of them from Thailand and the Philippines, will be evacuated when Israeli soldiers and settlers withdraw from Gaza next month.
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