21. Piles of garbage line the road to a Palestinian village in East Jerusalem where narrow, worn streets wind by stone houses clinging to rocky hillsides. 22. Sammy knew the Israeli government would clamp down, closing Palestinian villages and further delaying the issuance of work permits. 23. Second, came the construction of new Jewish houses at the heart of Ras al Amud, a densely populated Palestinian village in East Jerusalem. 24. The angry cycle of planting and uprooting has been repeated on the outskirts of this Palestinian village, as both sides rush to stake claims to land. 25. The areas to be ceded by Israel include several Palestinian villages and towns around the cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron. 26. The Israelis must begin to ease their tight restrictions on Palestinian villages and cities and start withdrawing their soldiers to positions they held before the violence started in September. 27. The Palestinian village was Deir Yassin. 28. The outposts are often strategically placed to claim a hilltop, to frame a major road or to hem in a Palestinian village. 29. The settlement and a nearby Palestinian village of the same name refer to the place where the biblical prophet Amos was born. 30. The valley that stands between this Palestinian village and an Israeli neighborhood of Jerusalem known as Gilo looked a lot like a war front Saturday. |
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