Channel 10: State pays NIS 1.07m. to families of 2 Palestinian workers killed in 2005 from Kassam rocket fired at Gush Katif.
By JPOST.COM STAFFPalestinian greenhouse worker 370(photo credit: REUTERS/Ammar Awad)
Israel compensated families of two Palestinian workers killed by a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Channel 10 reported on Sunday evening.The two were greenhouse workers in Ganei Tal, a former Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the south of the Gaza Strip.After the Labor Court rejected the families' compensation lawsuit, they turned to a Defense Ministry committee that gives compensations in unusual cases that ruled in their favor.As a result, the State of Israel paid the two families NIS 1 million and 70 thousand, according to Channel 10.
