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Hamas-ive Attack

A SchNEWS correspondent reports after a visit to the Occupied Territories

Following the humanitarian disaster in Iraq during the 90s caused by UN sanctions, Palestinian society continues to be torn apart by the sanctions regime imposed by the US and EU and the crippling Israeli occupation (See SchNEWS 544). The US stopped all bank transfers to the Palestinian Authority from the outside when Hamas were elected in January. All US and most EU aid has remained frozen and Israel is refusing to pay the customs duties required on goods being imported to Palestine through Israel (and there is no other route for imported goods).

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Thousands of Palestinians were detained at Qalandiya checkpoint yesterday as they tried to reach Al-Aqsa mosque to pray.

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On thursday I spent the night in the Bil In outpost, a structure the villagers have erected on their lands on the Western side of the Apartheid Wall, in protest at the destruction of their lands.

On the way to the outpost I met the father of Laith, one of two teenagers currently in prison for damaging the wall at a demonstration two months ago.

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Tuesday, 17 October

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Al Jifflik is a small town in the Jordan Valley. Most of the residents of Al Jifflik live in temporary plastic structures as Israeli miitary law prohibits the building of new structures.

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I passed through Qalandiya checkpoint today on the way back to Hebron.

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I visited Al Jifflik, a Palestinian town in the Jordan Valley last week in the hope of making connections between grassroots groups in the valley and in Brighton

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