Word: nablus
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...little girl with a dirt-smeared face shuffles barefoot in the muddy courtyard. The women of the Zakari family lean out of their window, an Ottoman arch whose grey stone is pitted by the weather of 250 years. The place was built for one of the richest families in Nablus. Now it serves as rented accommodation for the city's poorest, hidden in the heart of the Casbah. "It's not a palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant for a single household. "Do you think they...
...places in which Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs still mixed, and students had felt safe there. Hamas said the attack was revenge for the assassination of one of its leaders, and the deaths of 14 other people, in Gaza. In response, Israel sent tanks and troops into Nablus...
...With the political and diplomatic processes stalled, the deteriorating economic situation on both sides of the divide may begin to play a greater role in pressing the political leadership toward some form of solution. Palestinians in Nablus this week took to heart President Bush's injunction that they develop a market economy, and opened their vegetable market for three days in defiance of the Israeli curfew. This necessity-driven act of civil disobedience underscores the view of a growing number of Palestinian intellectuals that terror tactics harm their cause and that non-violent resistance to occupation is their best...
...constant curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority issued its now standard denunciation of attacks on Israeli civilians. But the Israeli public knows that the PA is no longer the relevant security authority in hotbeds of militancy such as Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jenin. The reoccupation of Palestinian cities that started three weeks ago with "Operation Determined Path" signaled that Israel had taken the security situation on the West Bank into its own hands for the immediate future...
...iron grip may ultimately prove to be self-defeating: Israel had planned to ease the burden of its reoccupation of West Bank towns out of recognition that the rage and despair fueled by its stranglehold over Palestinian daily life fuels sustains, rather than discourages terrorism. An Israeli officer in Nablus last week told Haaretz that the reason it was necessary to ease the siege of the Palestinian city was that "We don't want suicide bombing to become the residents' only source of income" - reference to cash payments from Iraq and Saudi Arabia to the families of Palestinian "martyrs...