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Disruptions in train traffic in the north after disabled people blocked the track near Atlit
Some disabled people have tied their wheelchairs to each other in protest that the government, they claim, is not honoring the past agreements they have signed with the Ministries of Finance and Welfare.
Train traffic between Binyamina and Haifa has been temporarily suspended.
"If the procrastination of transferring disabled public funds to their accounts continues - the protest will intensify"
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Yoav Itiel and Keinan Cohen
Sunday, 19 September 2021, 08:19 Updated: 08:26
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Disruptions in train traffic were recorded this morning (Sunday) in the north of the country, following the blocking of the track near Atlit by disabled people who are happy that the government, according to them, does not respect the past agreements signed between them and the finance and welfare ministers.
"For us, the Ministry of Finance and the Israeli government have broken the tools," said Eyal Cohen, a leader in the struggle for the disabled.
"We can not accommodate the long time we are waiting for money so the disabled struggle is taking another step, we say and sustain, we will make you the country."
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He went on to say that "today we handcuffed the wheelchairs and promise to return to the beginning of the 2018 struggle, we went hand in hand with you and thought we were done, and here you are pulling us further and further, we are a fighting unit, we are not interested in politics, we are interested in justice and fairness, so we We will remain in the field as long as the disabled in the State of Israel do not receive from the Ministry of Finance and the Government of Israel what they are legally entitled to. "
The Israel Railways stated: "Due to a demonstration by disabled organizations taking place at the intersection of Mesila Road near Atlit, train traffic has been stopped on the section of track between Hof Hacarmel and Binyamina stations, and there are changes and delays in train traffic. ".
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