73 Palestinians found trying to enter Israel in back of garbage truck - All Israel News

 73 Palestinians found trying to enter Israel in back of garbage truck

All Israel News Jo Elizabeth | Published: April 15, 2026 

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Palestinians found in a garbage truck trying to illegally enter Israel, April 14, 2026. (Photo: Israel Police)

Israeli police arrested 73 Palestinian men attempting to enter Israel by hiding in the back of a garbage truck at a checkpoint on Monday.

In distressing footage released by the police, dozens of men are exposed, crammed into the back of the garbage truck as the back is lifted up.

Police inspector Ital Almog told KAN News that they had received intelligence that the truck contained people hidden inside, and they had covertly followed it as it traveled along Route 5 toward the checkpoint. However, they were not prepared for the sight of so many men in such a disturbing situation. 

“Dozens of illegal entrants are hiding, trying to infiltrate into Israel,” Almog explained. The term “illegal entrants” is commonly used to describe Palestinians entering Israel in search of work.

The driver, a 30-year-old man from Kfar Qassem, did not have a license to drive the vehicle, and police discovered that each man had paid NIS 1,000 (around $330) for the dubious favor.

“The driver, sitting alone in the cabin, does not cooperate. He doesn't even know how to open the back part,” relayed Almog. “
We were talking with him for something like two hours. At a certain point, I stop him and take him for a private conversation. He finally manages to open it, and when he opens the rear tailgate, we actually understand the scale of the event: 73 Illegal entrants found inside a garbage truck.”

The lengths to which these Palestinians went in search of work have highlighted the chronic financial desperation many are now in, with work permits severely curtailed following the Oct. 7 massacre. 

“The garbage truck was full of trash, which posed a clear danger to their lives. They are, they are endangering themselves by the very fact that they are inside. There are toxic gases in there,” said Almog.

While Israel has legitimate security concerns, especially in the current climate, many Palestinians who lost jobs in Israel through no fault of their own have been unable to pay rent or cover basic necessities.

“The lack of work in the Palestinian Authority leads the unemployed to find original, creative ways to enter Israel. 
We are dealing with this phenomenon by targeting the transporters, the providers of shelter, and the employers,” said Almog, adding that they had already made 1,800 other arrests just since the beginning of the war with Iran. “The security establishment is trying to fight a phenomenon that is only getting worse."

According to recent polls from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), 59% of Palestinians living in the West Bank believe the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre was “the right decision,” and some 32% support Hamas and the idea of armed struggle against Israel, making relaxed access into Israel problematic. Those figures also show that two-thirds of West Bank Palestinians are not supportive of Hamas at all, but the data present a dilemma.

However, the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) has recommended that finding safe ways to increase the number of work permits would not only alleviate the suffering of Palestinians but would also be critical for security reasons. Warning of imminent economic collapse and the security implications of the growing crisis, they advise: 

“Israel can and should map out a selective and controlled policy for granting work permits, focusing on workers who present a minimal security risk, such as older, married workers with children, and those who are the primary breadwinners for their families.”

The extremities that these 73 men had gone to, ostensibly in search of work in Israel, are an indication of the increasingly dire situation many Palestinians find themselves in post Oct. 7. 

“This is a foul story of the devaluation of human life,” police concluded.

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Jo Elizabeth

Jo Elizabeth has a great interest in politics and cultural developments, studying Social Policy for her first degree and gaining a Masters in Jewish Philosophy from Haifa University, but she loves to write about the Bible and its primary subject, the God of Israel. As a writer, Jo spends her time between the UK and Jerusalem, Israel.

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23 Percent Of Americans In Their Prime Working Years Are Unemployed - Michael Synder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

23 Percent Of Americans In Their Prime Working Years Are Unemployed Posted: 27 Mar 2016  Michael Synder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG Did you know that when you take the number of working age Americans that are officially unemployed (8.2 million) and add that number to the number of working age Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force” (94.3 million), that gives us a grand total of 102.5 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now?  I have written about this before, but today I want to focus just on Americans that are in their prime working years.  When you look at only Americans that are from age 25 to age 54, 23.2 percent of them are unemployed right now.  The following analysis and chart come from the Weekly Standard… Here’s a chart showing those in that age group currently employed (95.6 million) and those who aren’t (28.9 million): “There are 124.5 million Americans in their prime working years (ages 25–54). Nearly one-quarter of this group—28.9 million people, or 23.2 percent of the total—is not currently employed. They either became so discouraged that they left the labor force entirely, or they are in the labor force but unemployed. This group of non-employed individuals is more than 3.5 million larger than before the recession began in 2007,” writes the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee. Clearly, we have never recovered from the impact of the last recession. But let’s try to put these numbers in context. Below, I would like to share two charts with you.  They show what has happened to the inactivity rates for men and for women in their prime working years in the United States in recent years. In order to be considered “inactive”, you can’t have a job and you can’t be looking for a job.  So this subset of people is smaller than the group that we were talking about above.  The 23.2 percent of Americans in their prime working years that are unemployed right now includes those that are looking for a job and those that are not looking for a job. These next two charts do not include anyone that has a job or that is currently looking for a job.  These charts only cover “inactive” people in their prime working years that are not considered to be in the labor force. As you can see in this first chart, the inactivity rate for men in their prime working years exploded higher during the last recession and then continued to go up even after the recession supposedly ended.  At this point, it is hovering near all-time record highs.  Does this look like an “economic recovery” to you?… For women, we see a similar thing.  In this next chart, you can see that the inactivity rate for women in their prime working years rose during the last recession and then just kept on rising.  At this point, it is also hovering near all-time record highs… What are we to make of all this? For both men and women in their prime working years, the inactivity rate is even higher than it was during the last recession and is hovering near the all-time record. All of these people neither have a job nor are they looking for one. So what in the world is going on here? Are they independently wealthy? Have these people found rich spouses to marry so they don’t have to work? No, the truth is that the middle class in America is steadily eroding and poverty is absolutely exploding.  Credit card debt has soared to a new record high, and 48 percent of all U.S. adults under the age of 30 believe that “the American Dream is dead”. The issue isn’t that people don’t want to work. The issue is that people cannot find enough work. And even if you have a job, that does not mean that you are on easy street.  According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year. Tens of millions of Americans are now among the ranks of “the working poor”.  So many families are watching their expenses soar while their paychecks go down or stagnate.  If you are in this situation right now, then you probably know how exceedingly stressful it can be. Just look at what is happening to the cost of health insurance.  The following comes from Fox News… Health insurance premiums have increased faster than wages and inflation in recent years, rising an average of 28 percent from 2009 to 2014 despite the enactment of Obamacare, according to a report from Freedom Partners. And I am not exactly sure where they got those numbers.  Personally, I know that my health insurance rates have gone up far faster than that. Two years ago, my health insurance company wanted to double the health insurance premiums for my family even though we never get sick.  So I switched to another insurance company that offered a policy that was only about 30 percent higher than my last one.  But then when it came time to renew, that insurance company wanted to raise my rate by another 50 percent. Thanks to Obamacare, American families are being absolutely crippled by the cost of health care.  And of course we are seeing the rising cost of living so many other places as well.  Our paychecks are being squeezed harder and harder, and this is absolutely killing the middle class.  In fact, the middle class in America is now a minority for the first time ever. And now for the real bad news – this is about as good as things are ever going to get in this country.  As you can see from what I have shared above, we never really had any sort of meaningful “economic recovery”, and now we have entered the early phases of the next major downturn. So where do we go from here?  Unfortunately, our debt-fueled prosperity has provided us with a massively inflated standard of living that is not even close to sustainable.  As this bubble bursts, the economic pain is going to be absolutely unprecedented. But it won’t be just economic pain that we are facing.  In my new book, I detail the things that I believe that are coming to this country, and I explain why the entire planet will soon be facing incredibly challenging times.  It is going to be one of the most controversial Christian books of 2016, because it directly challenges many of the things that are being taught in mainstream churches today.  My book is an ominous message of warning and an inspiring message of hope, and I truly believe that it is the most important thing that I have ever written. No matter how you may see the future, the key is that we all learn to love one another.  The years ahead are going to be extremely challenging, and those that want to chase everyone else away and survive as lone wolves are going to have a very rough time.  We all need each other, and those that have friends, family and communities around them are going to be in a much better position to weather the coming storms. So let us hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst…