The New York Times · 26 October 1999

CP-1999-008

Link Opens West Bank to Gaza's Job Hunters

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black plastic bag and his painter's Twelve years aiter the Palestinian pants in another. And then he hitched uprising against Israel severed the :. By DEBORAH SONTAG a ride to the border with Israel with- natural link between Gaza and the EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip, West Bank, the route established to- out saying goodbye, not even to his Oct.

25 - Khader Juneed, 23, had wife and three children. day reconnected the divided halves never set foot outside Gaza in his life, As he waited in line 1o be searched of the Palestinian world. and his family didn't want him to, Juneed soldiers, by Israeli Mr. The opening went smoothly, with either.

His parents feared he might at the opened a green vinyl folder to show relatively quick processing never return, and so when he came off the magnetic crossing card that border and barely any protest from home proudly last week with a shiny he, like many othe

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"Link Opens West Bank to Gaza's Job Hunters," The New York Times, 26 October 1999. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1999-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1999-008

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