<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Red Crescent Shuts Down Services Centers; Employees&nbsp;Outraged]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211;  07.03.11 &#8211; 11:36</p>
<p>Ramallah – PNN – Red Crescent employees sent out  urgent calls to union leaders and members of parliament in protest of  shutting down service centers across the West Bank.</p>
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<p>On  Sunday the Red Crescent Society announced closure of services centers  in the villages of Nil’in, Bidya, Jiftlek, Dura, Jaba, Yatta, Beni  Na&#8217;im, the Old City of Hebron, central Jerusalem, Bir Zeit, and  Tubas. Staff shifts were also lengthened. Red Crescent sources have not  given a reason for the closure.</p>
<p>Red Crescent employees  demanded in a letter that legislative council members and other national  leaders intervene to stop the closure of the service centers and force  the Red Crescent to implement Palestinian employment laws.</p>
<p>The  union accused the management of the Red Crescent Society of trying to  bypass Palestinian employment laws, claiming that deals were reached  between the union and the management in the past.</p>
<p>The  Palestinian Red Crescent Society is the main ambulance and emergency  provider in the Palestinian territories, providing services for free.  According to a Red Crescent source who did not want to be named, many  medics and ambulance drivers working for the society were killed by  Israeli gunfire while helping people during military attacks on  Palestinian communities.</p>
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<p><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9658&amp;Itemid=61">PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211; Red Crescent Shuts Down Services Centers; Employees Outraged</a>.</p>
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