Amid dire economic circumstances, West Bank Palestinians who have seen their economy crushed by war are smuggling themselves across heavily armed checkpoints, just to work illegally in Israel. At the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza it banned nearly all Palestinian workers from entering the country, a decision that affected about 150,000 West Bank Palestinians who used to cross over to Israel each day for work, as well as about 18,000 Gazans. A tiny fraction of them have since returned legally. In December, Israeli businesses pressured lawmakers to grant an exception for some 8,000 to 1…