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Beit Safafa

Beit Safafa residents protest Jerusalem’s plan to build a highway through their town

Global Politics

Highway construction is rarely popular with the people whose neighborhood the highway must go through. In a small, largely Palestinian town outside of Jerusalem, residents are organizing to try and stop a highway that will have little benefit to them from ripping up their neighborhood.

Quiet Palestinian Village Makes Noise Over Highway Plan

Conflict & Justice
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