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Jihan Abdalla

Jihan Abdalla is a Palestinian freelance journalist and television producer based in Jerusalem. On Twitter: @jihanabdalla.

Palestinian labourers work on a construction site in Pisgat Zeev, an urban settlement in an area Israel annexed to Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Middle East war, July 28, 2013. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged divided rightists in his cabinet to approve the release of 104 Arab prisoners in order to restart peace talk with the Palestinians. The prisoner release would allow Netanyahu to sidestep other Palestinian demands, such as a halt to Jewish settlement expansion. REUTERS/Baz R

A Palestinian contradiction: working in Israeli settlements

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Palestinian tale of love, politics gets Oscar nomination

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Musicians perform on stage in Manger Square, outside the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION) - RTX1605A

Bethlehem gets assist from UNESCO for Christmas season

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Israeli Army Demolishes Popular Palestinian Restaurant

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Israeli police officers look as an excavator demolishes a house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina February 5, 2013. A statement from the Jerusalem Municipality said there was a court order for the demolition of the house, which was built without a permit in an open landscape area where construction is forbidden. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3DDS4

Jerusalem Palestinians Face Neglect, Displacement

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A Palestinian farmer harvests grapes in a vineyard in the West bank village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron September 9, 2012. Once the mainstay of the local economy, Palestinian agriculture in the rocky West Bank is in decline, with farmers struggling to protect both their livelihoods and their lands. Deprived of water and cut off from key markets, farmers across the occupied territory can only look on with a mix of anger and envy as Israeli settlers copiously irrigate their own plantations and export at wi

Israel Denies Palestinians Equal Water Access

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A young Bedouin girl is seen near the West Bank city of Jericho August 18, 2008. Threats of evacuation, house demolition, drought, travel restriction, and harassment are just some of the growing hardships the Bedouin community is facing daily, both in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. This is all happening in the midst of a painful social transition between traditional and modern values. In Israel and the West Bank, Bedouins are native to the Negev and Judean Deserts which spans across Israel

Palestinian Bedouin Community Battles Eviction

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Workers place newly made leather sandals in the storage area of a shoe factory in Hebron June 29, 2010. Cattle owners in Hebron, the West Bank city known for its leather and carpentry industries, have turned to selling hides from cattle slaughtered for meat to shoe manufacturers. The hides are processed at special facilities in the West Bank and the leather is sold to local shoe factories. Picture taken June 29, 2010. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR2FY27

Palestinian Shoe Industry Declines in Hebron

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