MK Ayman Odeh (Joint List), visiting Ichilov Hospital, says in a television interview that the injured from the building collapse in Tel Aviv came “from all parts of society,” including Jews and Arabs.
MK Ayman Odeh of the Joint Arab list visits a man wounded in a Tel Aviv building collapse, at Ichilov Hospital, September 5, 2016 (Joint List)
Odeh highlights the plight of construction workers, many of them Palestinian, who often work in dangerous conditions, a subject that has not received widespread media attention.
“Thirty-two people have died since the beginning of the year,” he says of those workers. “This requires, immediately, a state investigative committee.
“We’ll fight for this demand,” he vows.
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