Mansoura-España Garments workers sit-in
This is the Mansoura-España Garments Company factory, where around 150 workers out of a total 284 labor force (75% of them are women) have been staging a sit-in since 21 April, demanding their bonuses, unpaid since 1999, amid rumors their company is to be liquidated.
The women left their husbands, children and parents for 29 days now, sleeping on the factory floors, with little food and water supplies.
They are refusing to leave the factory, fearing the owning bank Al-Masraf Al-Muttahid (United Bank) will shut it down with the help of the police.
Israel continues Gaza killings
From Al-Jazeera…
At least seven Palestinians have been killed as Israel carried out four more air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
In the latest attack two Palestinian fighters were killed in a strike on a minibus near a Gaza City post manned by Hamas on Friday, according to witnesses and medical sources.
Five other people were wounded in the raid on the Nasser district of northern Gaza City close to a position of the Executive Force, a paramilitary group under the control of Hamas, the sources said.
Earlier one man died and several were hurt when Israeli helicopter gunships fired on them after they had launched a rocket into Israel, a Palestinian hospital official said.