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New Palestinian City Planned in West Bank

Posted by: Nate Berg

1 June 2008 - 8:00am

A developer has plans for a new Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which he says would be the first new city in the West Bank in thousands of years. But he is still awaiting approval on a crucial road.

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"Backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar, a Palestinian developer is moving aggressively to build the first new Palestinian city in the West Bank in a generation. But the state-of-the-art planned city faces big hurdles, including Israeli military objections and critics who say the West Bank is not ready for such projects."

Full Story: Planned Palestinian City in West Bank Faces Hurdles
Source: NPR, May 30, 2008
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