{"id":29330,"date":"2019-01-16T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29330"},"modified":"2019-01-16T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:24:33","slug":"palestinians-strike-against-social-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29330","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians strike against social security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1436171\/middle-east\" readability=\"77\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH:\u00a0Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank joined a strike on Tuesday against their government\u2019s proposed new social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged.<\/p>\n<p>\nMuch of Ramallah, Hebron and other Palestinian cities remained closed.<\/p>\n<p>\nA few thousand people protested outside the Social Security Corporation in Ramallah, where Abbas\u2019 government is based.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnder the proposed system both private employers and their employees would pay monthly into a government-managed fund, with employees receiving a pension when they retire.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe government says it will provide new security for employees, arguing similar systems exist in countries across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\nProtesters say they do not trust the Palestinian government to manage the fund and point out there are no guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey also say Israel\u2019s occupation of the West Bank means that the long-term existence of the Palestinian Authority government is far from secure.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli soldiers have carried out repeated raids inside Ramallah in recent weeks, including near Abbas\u2019 headquarters, following two deadly shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmer Farah, who works at Bank of Palestine in Ramallah, said that in functioning states the social security laws were important to protect citizens\u2019 futures.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut we are still under occupation, and there is no contact between parts of the country,\u201d he told AFP, alluding to the decade-long split between the West Bank and Gaza, where Abbas\u2019 rivals Hamas are in control.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe country is not stable, neither economically nor politically. How will they implement the law?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH:\u00a0Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank joined a strike on Tuesday against their government\u2019s proposed new social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged. Much of Ramallah, Hebron and other Palestinian cities remained closed. A few thousand people protested outside the Social Security Corporation in Ramallah, where Abbas\u2019 government is based. Under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}