The Secretary-General of the General Confederation of Palestinian Trade Unions, Shaher Saad, called on the International Labor Organization and the International Confederation of Trade Unions to intervene immediately and urgently to protect Palestinian workers who work in the occupied interior, for the purpose of obtaining a living only.

Saad denounced, in a statement issued today, Tuesday, the brutal attack by the occupation forces on workers who are looking for a hard living, which resulted in the injury of a number of them, one of them seriously, as a result of stun grenades being fired at workers near the northern Qalqilya crossing.

He pointed out that the occupation police withdrew the buses carrying the workers to their places of work, as a form of collective punishment practiced by the occupation against the Palestinians.

This morning, a worker was injured and dozens suffocated as a result of the occupation police attack on workers in the "Eyal" checkpoint, north of Qalqilya.

Hundreds of Palestinian workers closed part of Road 55 this morning, refusing to withdraw the occupation police from buses that take them to their places of work in the 48 lands.