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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
William Christou and Sufian Taha in Jenin

West Bank resistance dies amid fears of becoming Israel’s ‘next Gaza’

Three armed Israeli soldiers surround a Palestinian woman on a roadside
Israeli soldiers stop Palestinians visiting the cemetery in Jenin camp. Residents are more occupied with the struggle of daily life than resistance as poverty and Israeli restrictions make eking out an existence ever harder. Photograph: Raneen Sawafta/Reuters

Shadi Dabaya’s body bears the scars of the Israeli occupation. The 54-year-old proudly stuck out his jaw to show the chunk of his cheek torn away by Israeli fire and traced the zigzag scar on his arm, the pink, raised flesh marking the bullet’s path through his body.

“I got these in the second intifada,” said Dabaya, beaming. He pulled up a video of himself a year earlier confronting an Israeli personnel carrier in Jenin camp wielding only a flip-flop.

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