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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zena Al Tahhan

In Haifa, Israel sells Palestinian homes as luxury real estate

Since 2000, the Israeli government has been selling the remaining Palestinian buildings in Haifa's Wadi Salib neighbourhood to real estate companies, which will either demolish them and build modern residential or commercial projects or renovate and sell them as luxury real estate aimed at the Israeli market [Zena Al Tahhan/Al Jazeera]

Haifa, Israel – The city of Haifa sits like a cascading waterfall on the lush green slopes of the Carmel Mountains on the strikingly blue Mediterranean Sea.

It is often portrayed by Israeli officials as well as Western and Israeli media as being a hip, modern city and a model of “coexistence” between Israelis and Palestinians.

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