Israel began this Friday to send "thousands" of Palestinian workers who had been blocked in its territory on October 7, at the beginning of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, back to the Gaza Strip, despite the fact that His Army continues bombing the enclave, inflicting significant damage and numerous deaths on the civilian population. "Thousands of workers who were blocked in Israel since October 7 were brought back" to Gaza, Hicham Adwan, in charge of crossing points in Gaza, told the AFP news agency. The UN said this Friday that it was "deeply concerned" about the sending of Palestinians to the Gaza Strip under current conditions. These workers "are being sent back despite the seriousness of the situation" in the Palestinian enclave, said Elizabeth Throssell, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Images broadcast live by AFP from the nearby city of Rafah show people crossing the Karem Abu Salem border post (called Kerem Shalom on the Israeli side), between Israel and the Gaza Strip, in the southeastern corner of the small Palestinian territory. Some 18,500 Gazans had a work permit in Israel when the war broke out, according to Israeli authorities. Israel revoked all work permits granted to Gazans on October 10, according to a coalition of Israeli human rights NGOs. "The Israeli army and police have imprisoned Gazans" without "any legal basis," the humanitarian entities added. The forced returns to Gaza come a few hours after an announcement to this effect from the Israeli security cabinet. "Israel cuts all ties with Gaza, there will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza." The Gaza Strip has been constantly bombed since October 7 by the Israeli Army in response to the Hamas attack against Israel, in which at least 1,400 people were killed and 240 were kidnapped, all of them mostly civilians, according to authorities. Hamas, which governs Gaza, reported for its part that the number of deaths in its territory due to the Israeli offensive exceeds 9,000, the vast majority of them civilians.