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When Orly Simon and her husband Yoav look out from Gilo, their neighborhood on the southern edge of Jerusalem, across a valley they can just make out where Jacqueline Zeidan and her husband Fayez used to live in Beit Jala. The families have much in common. Each has young daughters, two for the Simons, three for the Zeidans, all very cute. Both wives are pregnant. But more than a valley separates them. The Simons are Israelis; the Zeidans are Palestinians. Throughout the intifadeh, Palestinian gunmen from Beit Jala have periodically shot at and shelled Gilo. Israeli forces have retaliated...
Every day Fayez Zeidan, 36, wanders around Bethlehem looking for work. He seldom finds it. Before the intifadeh, which began in September 2000, he was a construction worker in Israel and labored side by side with Israelis. "In those days the mutual confidence was so great," he says. "We used to go to Israeli restaurants and cities and take weekend picnics without being questioned." No longer. Once the intifadeh put a stop to easy transit from the West Bank into Israel, Fayez lost his job. "To be honest with you, we live on charity," he says. His small two-bedroom...
...Fayez's greatest pride was a comfortable three-story villa sporting a big veranda overlooking Gilo, located in Beit Jala near the Greek Orthodox church his family attends. He built the house, mostly with his own hands, during the four years that he and Jacqueline lived with his parents. Israeli forces shelled it last May. They claimed snipers had been using the roof. The Zeidans' 9-year-old daughter Mariana remembers the day: "We ran away from the house, and we saw it burning behind us when we reached safety." Nothing remained of their possessions. "All my hard work...
...dangerous. You would have to be desperate to claw your way through the earth like this. But with unemployment at 65%, Rafah isn't short of despairing men. The tunnels are their best hope. "This town would be a disaster if you couldn't smuggle across the border," says Fayez, a bootlegger who declines to give his full name. "At least people here can turn to that when things...
Norman Roca, general manager of the Milner, told the Globe that the four hijackers were Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alsheri and Satam al-Suqami. Al Suqami was one of the hijackers aboard Flight 11, while the others were on Flight...