159 Contributing to the deficit, in addition to the continued Israeli occupation, is the deep‐rootedness of the political division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Also, the efforts made by the Government in the Gaza Strip or those efforts still to be worked on which fall within the framework of providing the right to work for citizens in the Gaza Strip did not and do not appear to sufficiently correspond to the existing problem. III ‐ Government Policies Violating the Right to Work In this section, we refer to the policies violating the right to work in two categories; the first deals with the government policies in the West Bank and the second deals with the policies adopted in the Gaza Strip. West Bank A‐ Violating the right to work by forcing citizens by the Security Services to submit their resignations: The Palestinian Security Services deprived a number of citizens of their right to work by demanding they resign from institutions and associations, and threatening to arrest them if they did not obey its orders to submit their resignations. ICHR continued to receive complaints from citizens claiming that they were summoned by the Preventive Security Service and had been asked to resign from work. ICHR received (9) complaints from staff working in the Solidarity Charitable Association in the city of Nablus, while it received (6) responses to a number of these complaints. The Service reported that it is dedicated to rights and freedoms in general, especially the right to work, and there was no truth to the claim of the complainants that the Service asked them to resign from their work. One example, according to citizen (A.A) was so reported: “On 21/07/2010, she was summoned by the Preventive Security Service for the interview on the same date and day. During the interview, the questions and inquiries were about her former activity in the university, and that she belonged to the Islamic Bloc and that she was required to admit it. On 22/07/2010, she went to meet them again and the main demand was that she submit her resignation from the Solidarity Charity. She was asked not to go to work or she would be arrested.” Also citizen (CA) reported “On 31/07/2010, she was summoned by the Preventive Security Service. When she went, she was asked by members of the Service to sign a pledge not to go to work to the Solidarity Charity or to