{"id":2252,"date":"2007-08-05T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2007-08-05T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T00:30:02","slug":"how-many-palestinians-must-die-before-the-checkpoints-are-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"How many Palestinians must die before the checkpoints are dismantled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FEATURE-West Bank trade hub feels checkpoint squeeze<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Mohammed Assadi , <em>Reuters<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L3048683.htm\">05 Aug 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Home to about 365,000 Palestinians, Nablus and the surrounding villages have been famed as a centre for trade since Greco-Roman times.Before Israel ringed Nablus with checkpoints in 2002 after the start of the Palestinian uprising, the city was the West Bank&#8217;s economic heart.<\/p>\n<p>Now about 25,000 Palestinians struggle to cross Hiwwara and other checkpoints around the city each day. On a slow day, the lucky ones can make it through the long lines and Israeli security checks within minutes. But it can take hours and those who don&#8217;t have the right permit get turned back. &#8220;We are being suffocated here by these checkpoints,&#8221; Sarrawi said inside his older Nablus shop. He said the new branch serves as &#8220;the lungs&#8221; to allow his 36-year-old business selling Mercedes-Benz spare parts to survive: &#8220;We were forced to go out of Nablus so that we could breathe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L3048683.htm\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURE-West Bank trade hub feels checkpoint squeeze By Mohammed Assadi , Reuters, 05 Aug 2007 Home to about 365,000 Palestinians, Nablus and the surrounding villages have been famed as a centre for trade since Greco-Roman times.Before Israel ringed Nablus with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}