Palestinian men keep warm around a fire as they wait to be collected by their Israeli employers after crossing from the West Bank town of Qalqilya to work in the Jewish state in the early morning of Feb. 19, near the Israeli army's checkpoint at Kibbutz Eyal in central Israel. With high unemployment the Palestinian economy is in a state of near-collapse resulting in increased pressure on the growing number of Palestinian workers seeking employment, illegally and legally in Israel.