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Israel rescinds 200 Gaza work permits, citing bomb worries

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian workers wait to cross the Erez crossing to Israel in the northern Gaza Strip September 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo

Israel has cancelled 200 out of some 15,500 permits issued to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to work in its territory after a labourer was accused of planning to carry out a bombing, the Shin Bet security agency said on Thursday.

The suspect, arrested on Oct. 30, told interrogators he had been recruited by relatives in the militant group Islamic Jihad to plant a bomb on a bus in southern Israel, the Shin Bet said.

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