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Fifty years after Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, this army of labourers is one of the most visible signs of the occupation.Israeli control has held back the Palestinian economy, making decent-paying jobs in the territories scarce. Stripped of choices, Palestinians work in Israel, where their average pay is the minimum wage- still more than double what they would earn at home. For Israel, they are a source of cheap labour, building homes, fixing cars and serving food.Laying tiles in Israel has become a Maraita family tradition, passed down from Maraita's late father to him, his four brothers, and one of his sons. The distance between Salfit and Tel Aviv is just 30 miles (48 kilometres), but travel restrictions, including a ban on Palestinian cars entering Israel, keep him on the road for almost as much time each day as he spends working.He spends over four hours just travelling to and from work, Maraita says.But he has no choice.\"We are obliged to work here, in Israel, because there (Palestinian territories) there is not enough money to survive. When you have a family and you earn between 2,000 and 2,500 Israel Shekels (approx 565  to 705 US dollars) a month, what can that amount do for a family with children? It is not enough to live on.\"Some workers with coveted sleepover permits spend the entire work week in Israel to cut down on the lengthy commute. For seven years, Maraita lived this way, but he has resumed the daily commute because he does not want to neglect his wife, Siham. At about 6 a.m., the bus drops off the workers at a corner coffee shop in scruffy Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv. Maraita buys a coffee and chats with other customers, including two Israeli Jews, as he waits for his employer.One of the regulars, Ariel Schneider, a small-time contractor, has been using Palestinian works at this site for years.\"Look, I get along with them - I am here because I know them. You know some of them, 70 percent of them are good people, 30 percent are people who create problems, so these ones should be handled,\" says Schneider.Schneider, believes Palestinians don't need a state.\"We need to make sure they (Palestinians) have work and everything will be fine,\" he says.Michal Tadjer, from the non-profit organisation Kav LaOved or Worker's Hotline, says that there are about 70,000 people working in Israel with permits and thousands more working without.At peak times, a third of the West Bank's labour force worked in Israel, where the standard of living is 12.5 times higher than that of Palestinians back home - a gap that has widened since 1967.This lopsided economic relationship will loom large if President Donald Trump restarts long-stalled negotiations on setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Like its predecessors, this US administration believes strengthening the Palestinian economy would support such talks.But Israelis and Palestinians have different views of what this should look like.\"Israel's government's interest, at least not the official one, is not the welfare of the Palestinian workers or the Palestinian citizens but rather the Israeli citizens and the Israeli industry; the construction industry, the agriculture industry, \" says Tadjer.\"The Government allows quotas for Palestinian due to the needs of the construction industry, due to needs of the agriculture industry.\"Palestinians say Israel must cut the shackles now, rather than linking economic change to an elusive peace deal. They say it's the only way to grow a sluggish economy held back by Israeli restrictions, including on Palestinian development in large parts of the West Bank where dozens of Jewish settlements are allowed to flourish.Israel has proposed improvements of the current system, such as setting up joint industrial zones and reducing bottlenecks at Israeli crossings that Palestinians say prevent them from trading competitively. It also told the Trump administration it's ready to open more of the West Bank to economic development.  But Deputy Defence Minister Eli Ben-Dahan says it all depends on the Palestinian citizens.\"If they will only come to work and will not carry out any terror action or anything else of that matter, as far as we are concerned we will open our doors to them, we will assist them and will be happy to accept them for work. But if they will take advantage of this and will make the work license into license to kill, we will not accept this and we will close to the doors to them and minimize the number of workers coming into the state of Israel.\" Palestinians from Gaza can no longer work in Israel; their entry was blocked after Hamas seized Gaza in 2007.Over the years, Palestinians increasingly felt they were getting a bad deal. Their economy contracted or stagnated as a result of conflict-related closures, and they became more dependent on foreign aid. The closures limited the access of Palestinian goods and workers to Israel, while Israel continued to export to Palestinian areas.In the West Bank, youth unemployment has reached 40 percent, and the overall figure for all ages stands at 18 percent.Gaza, home to 2 million Palestinians, is even worse off. The border blockade has prevented most exports. Unemployment has reached 42 percent. Among the young it's 60 percent.Palestinians say that if left to their own devices, they could create jobs and wean themselves off hundreds of millions of dollars a year in foreign aid. The World Bank says the Palestinian economy could grow by a third if Palestinians could access resources in so-called Area C, or 60 percent of the West Bank, where Israel retains sole control.Hardliners in Israel's Cabinet push for an annexation of Area C, and the government has accelerated settlement construction there, as well as in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.In the long run, Israelis and Palestinians would gain economically from a two-state solution.FILE: Herzliya, central Israel – 9 March 20171. Wide of sunrise 2. Pan of Palestinian workers waiting in street 3. Wide of empty street in the early morning 4. Palestinian worker smoking and speaking on the phone  5. Palestinian workers standing in street 6. Ariel Schneider, construction manager and Fuad Maraita, Palestinian worker talking 7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ariel Schneider, Israeli construction manager:\"Look, I get along with them - I am here because I know them. You know some of them, 70 percent of them are good people, 30 percent are people who create problems, so these ones should be handled. The majority are people with whom we have been (working) for 30 years, we get along with them. Basically we need to make sure everyone has work and then everything will be okay.\" 8. Fuad Maraita walking by construction site9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fuad Maraita, Palestinian worker:\"Every day I waste on the way (to work) two and a half hours and an additional two hours (on the way back home) that is four and a half hours wasted on commuting. I reach my house at 18:30 every day, every day.\"Tel Aviv, Israel - 4 June 201710. Set up of Michal Tadjer from Kav LaOved or Worker's Hotline, a non-profit organisation11. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Michal Tadjer, Kav LaOved, Worker's Hotline:\"There are all in all 70,000 workers with a permit. Around 60,000 of them are working in construction, this is correct for 2017, these are the quotas for 2017. And the rest of the workers split between agriculture and various industries. Now, there are additional tens of thousands coming into Israel and work in Israel without permits. We are unable to provide an accurate estimate but we think it is a large group.\" FILE: Herzliya, central Israel - 9 March 201712. Schneider speaking to Palestinian workers13. Tilt up of a man holding food bag sitting as he waits to be picked up for work Tel Aviv, Israel - 4 June 201714. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Michal Tadjer, Kav LaOved, Worker's Hotline:\"Israel's government's interest, at least not the official one, is not the welfare of the Palestinian workers or the Palestinian citizens but rather the Israeli citizens and the Israeli industry; the construction industry, the agriculture industry - this is what interests the government at least officially. (The Government) allows quotas for Palestinians due to the needs of the construction industry, due to needs of the agriculture industry - it is not declared at all that it is due to needs of the Palestinians.\"    15. Set up of Deputy Defence Minister, Eli Ben-Dahan in his office16.SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Eli Ben-Dahan, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister:\"It all depends on the Palestinian civilians. If they will only come to work and will not carry out any terror attacks or anything similar, as far as we are concerned we will open our doors to them, we will assist them and will be happy to accept them for work. But if they will take advantage of this and will make the work licenses into licenses to kill, we will not accept this and we will close to the door,  and minimise the number of workers coming into the state of Israel.\" FILE: Herzliya, central Israel - 9 March 201717. Maraita working at the construction site 18. 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