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September 5, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=283807

West Bank Palestinians Protest Cost of Living

(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Palestinians demonstrated in West Bank cities Tuesday in protest against an increase in prices of fuel and basic goods. In Ramallah, scores of young men blocked the main road leading to the Mukata presidential compound. The protesters carried banners that read: "No to the Government of Disgrace" - a reference to the government of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. In Hebron, dozens of protesters burned effigies of Fayyad and shouted slogans denouncing his government. Earlier, dozens of truck drivers staged a sit-in strike in the center of Hebron, blocking several main roads. Similar protests also erupted in Bethlehem and the nearby Dehaishe refugee camp, where hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets, demanding that the PA government take measures to solve the economic crisis.

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