The situation of West Bank Palestinians working in Israel has highlighted a number of parallels with the conditions of global labor employed in essential sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic Under capitalism, the compulsion to work, ostensibly to cultivate life, comes at the risk of being exposed to death, but is preferred over immiseration caused by unemployment The pandemic has merely amplified existing structural features of such employment For Palestinian workers, with the risk of infection in Israel being significantly higher, the perilous conditions experienced by Palestinian labor have turned the preservation of life enabled by such employment more firmly into the production of death The Palestinian Authority (PA), too, faces a conundrum: to balance the economic benefits it derives from Palestinian disposability in the Israeli labor market with public health considerations limiting such employment This essay argues that the Covid-19 pandemic lays fully bare the necroeconomy produced by the intersection of settler colonialism and capitalism, which also forms the bedrock of the necropolitical order in the West Bank

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Covid-19 与以色列巴勒斯坦劳工的死灵经济

在以色列工作的西岸巴勒斯坦人的情况突显出与 Covid-19 大流行期间在重要部门就业的全球劳动力条件存在许多相似之处面临死亡，但比失业造成的苦难更受青睐 大流行只是放大了这种就业的现有结构特征 对于巴勒斯坦工人来说，由于在以色列感染的风险明显更高，巴勒斯坦劳工所经历的危险条件已经转这种就业使生命更加坚定地转化为死亡的产生 巴勒斯坦权力机构（PA）也面临着一个难题：以平衡巴勒斯坦人在以色列劳动力市场上的可支配性带来的经济利益与限制此类就业的公共卫生考虑 本文认为 Covid-19 大流行充分暴露了定居者殖民主义和资本主义交叉产生的死灵经济，这也形成了西岸亡灵政治秩序的基石