(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Nearly 200,000 West Bank Palestinian patients and those accompanying them were granted entry permits in 2011 for medical treatment in Israel, a 13% increase from 2010, according to a Foreign Ministry report to be submitted Wednesday at a Palestinian donors' conference meeting in Brussels. Some 21,500 Palestinian children from the West Bank were also treated in Israeli hospitals last year, a 171% increase. In 2011 some 31,414 Palestinians worked in Israel.
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