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The Banality of Occupation

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Yousef Munayyer recaps the events of a single 24-hour period this week in Palestine, giving a glimpse of one day in the life of the occupation.

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Half a century. That is just about how long Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has gone on for. To be precise, it’s been about 46 years, 2 months and a couple weeks.

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