Tag: Economic Crisis
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Economic Strain and Daily Survival in the West Bank
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine During a recent visit to a butcher shop in Bethlehem, I met Abu Ali, an 85-year-old butcher whose stories hold half a century of economic history. He smiled as he remembered, he said: “Fifty years ago, people asked for the price of 250 grams not a kilo.” Life was simpler,…