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	Massive Concrete Wall Encircles Qalqiliya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Located in the north of the West Bank, Qalqiliya is bang on the Green Line, the boundary which separates the Jewish state from the Palestinian territories.
		But at Qalqiliya, it transforms itself for several kilometres (miles) into a grey concrete wall dotted at regular intervals by turrets which allow Israeli soldiers to keep a permanent eye on the town.
		The route chosen by the Israeli authorities for the fence means that Qalqiliya finds itself encircled and nearly totally cut off from the rest of the West Bank.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=4&id=348 (686 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Palestinians fleeing battle zone hardship
		The flight from Qalqiliya mirrors migration patterns across the territory and to a lesser extent in the Gaza Strip.
		Qalqiliya Mayor Marouf Zahran said those who move are often too embarrassed to show up at City Hall to have their electricity shut off.
		Qalqiliya was once an important commercial hub in the northern West Bank, with farms and dozens of lucrative joint businesses with Israel.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/03/01/palestinians_fleeing_battle_zone_hardship?mode=PF (946 words)

	UNRWA: emergency appeal: stories
		Population figures for the main towns are Qalqiliya, 41,000; Tulkarm, 43,000; Jenin, 34,000.
		In Qalqiliya town, 22 percent of the city’s pre-intifada economy was based on agricultural produce: this number has risen to 45 percent with 2,000 agricultural workers supporting approximately 15,000 residents.
		Some 4,000 residents of Qalqiliya possess Israeli IDs through marriage and other family connections but are now officially prohibited from residing in the town.
	www.un.org /unrwa/emergency/barrier/part01.html (4121 words)

	Basic needs give Hamas reason to call its enemy: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
		QALQILIYA, West Bank - Hashem al Masri, the newly elected deputy mayor of this Palestinian city of 45,000 people, is a member of Hamas, the radical Islamic group dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in its place.
		In Jayus, near Qalqiliya, a Hamas councilor negotiated with Israeli authorities to open a gate across a barrier that was closed by Israel for security reasons but that Jayus farmers needed opened to reach their fields.
		Qalqiliya's new mayor, Wajih Qawwas, is in jail on administrative detention, as he has been for the past 30 months.
	www.sun-sentinel.com /bal-te.hamas03jun03,0,3762861.story (1124 words)

	POICA-Qalqiliya between the jaws of the Apartheid Wall
		Qalqiliya is located in the northern western part of West Bank.
		Consequently, Qalqiliya lives now in a closed enclave with only one passway (bottle neck) through the village of Nabi Elias on the road to Nablus to the east (see attached aerial photograph).
		The Qalqiliya governorate is the mostly affected one by the construction of the apartheid wall where large areas of agricultural land have been cut and annexed to Israel proper.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=270 (719 words)

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		In April major Muslim organizations in Qalqiliya in conjunction with local mosques, the city's Mufti and municipal leaders, sent a letter to the interior minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority accusing the YMCA of missionary activities and demanding the Palestinian government immediately shut down the Christian offices.
		Medi said Qalqiliya's YMCA received a final notification from local leaders warning the association to close its offices before "drastic measures" were taken.
		Qalqiliya is located at the West Bank's point of closest proximity to the Mediterranean Sea.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3302162,00.html (921 words)

	UNRWA: emergency appeal: stories
		The governorate of Qalqiliya comprises 32 villages with approximately 90,000 Palestinians.
		North of Qalqiliya town, the settlement of Tsufin will also be de facto annexed to Israel and the barrier will shear off large tracts of land from Jayous and Falamya.
		Unlike Qalqiliya, it was believed that Tulkarm town and its immediate hinterland would be largely unaffected by the barrier: however, in addition to a Barrier which will be erected to the west of the town, a ‘depth barrier’ or deep trench 9,845 metres long and 24 metres wide will be excavated to the east.
	www.un.org /unrwa/emergency/barrier/part02.html (2721 words)

	Jews Against the Occupation ...
		Qalqiliya (pronounced call keel ya) is a Palestinian city of approximately 50,000 people and is entirely surrounded by a 'security fence' that Israel is building.
		Some settlements remain to the west of the winding wall and some to the east, but Qalqiliya is entirely fenced in, a giant prison, with one checkpoint and one farmer's gate.
		As the last gate is closed at whatever hour the soldiers choose, Qalqiliya closes its eyes and prays that the gates will open another day.
	www.jatonyc.org /eric/earth.html (636 words)

	keyetv.com - Hamas Emerging As Political Force
		In Qalqiliya, a West Bank town of 45,000 on the frontier with Israel, the green Hamas banner was hoisted over city hall as the group swept all 15 local council seats.
		Qalqiliya is particularly sensitive because of its nearness to the Israeli town of Kfar Saba.
		Kfar Saba was once intertwined with Qalqiliya in a relationship that transcended the conflict.
	keyetv.com /topstories/topstories_story_126160109.html (920 words)

	POICA-Losses in the Agricultural Sector in Qalqiliya District
		POICA-Losses in the Agricultural Sector in Qalqiliya District
		The Qalqiliya district is heavily dependent on agriculture and its farmers have been hit hard by the occupation in recent months, as shown in the following tables.
		These figures represent an enormous loss to the Palestinian farmers and to the overall economy in the Qalqiliya district as a result of the tightening of the closure on the West Bank and Gaza since the beginning of the Al Aqsa intifada.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=129 (1221 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| The democratic challenge
		We are sitting beneath a portrait of the late Palestinian president in the mayor's office in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya.
		This may prove difficult in Qalqiliya: the newly elected mayor, Wajih Quawas, is currently serving a 32 month term in an Israeli jail for unspecified "terrorist offences".
		In the past Qalqiliya was not only a nationalist town but a moderate one.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/750/re2.htm (809 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: The Apartheid Cage around Qalqiliya: Qalqiliya’s Struggle for Survival since 1948
		According to this agreement, 400,000 dunums of the Triangle lands, between six villages surrounding Qalqiliya, were handed over to Israel; 40,000 dunums of this were the lands, farms and orchards of Qalqiliya and demarcated the “new” border adjacent to houses located in the city’s outskirts.
		Despite the attempts at confidentiality by Israel on settlement data, the outcome of the settlement activities in Qalqiliya and the district is serious, where there are 25 Jewish settlements in the district total 53,790 settlers who total 27% of the West Bank settlers, minus Jerusalem.
		The area between this cage and the residential areas in the western side of Qalqiliya is just a few meters, while in the northern and southern portions; it is 200 meters from the homes, and 700 meters on the east.
	www.stopthewall.org /analysisandfeatures/20.shtml (1724 words)

	Come and See, The Christian website from Nazareth - Palestinian gunmen burn Qalqiliya YMCA
		In April, WND reported major Muslim organizations in Qalqiliya, in conjunction with local mosques, the city's Mufti and municipal leaders, sent a letter to the interior minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority accusing the YMCA of missionary activities and demanding the Palestinian government immediately shut down the Christian offices.
		Medi said Qalqiliya's YMCA received a final notification from local leaders warning the association to close its offices before "drastic measures" were taken.
		Qalqiliya is located at the West Bank's point of closest proximity to the Mediterranean Sea.
	www.comeandsee.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=768 (711 words)

	MEI: Letter from Qalqiliya
		We are sitting beneath a portrait of the late Palestinian leader in the mayor’s office in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya.
		This may prove difficult in Qalqiliya: the newly elected mayor, Wajih Qawas, is currently serving a 32-month term in an Israeli jail for unspecified “terrorist offences”.
		Historically, Qalqiliya was known not only as a nationalist town but a moderate one.
	meionline.com /backcover/377.shtml (720 words)

	AM - West Bank city council cancels festival for violating Islamic values
		TONY EASTLEY: Less than two months after being elected to run the municipal council in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya, the militant group Hamas is being accused of introducing Taliban-style rules on the city.
		MARK WILLACY: Qalqiliya is the first major West Bank town to elect Hamas to its council.
		Qalqiliya's elected mayor — Hamas activist, Wajih Nazzal — is in an Israeli jail.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1408024.htm (587 words)

	Life Against the Wall
		It is not the Lodz ghetto or the Warsaw ghetto, but it is a ghetto that would be recognizable to the 16th-century Jews in Rome who were herded into a walled enclave by Pope Paul IV in 1555 and stranded there for generations.
		Qalqiliya, like all ghettos cut off from the outside world, is dying.
		Qalqiliya feels like a plague town, quarantined, which may not be far from the truth.
	www.motherjones.com /news/dispatch/2004/07/07_401-2.html (1408 words)

	PCUSA - Washington Office - Global Security - The Israeli Separation Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Qalqiliya City is surrounded by the massive concrete wall that is 25 feet high.
		Residents of Qalqiliya talk of an “internal closure” on their spirits.
		The wall takes different forms: an eight-meter-high concrete wall in Qalqiliya, while in other areas it is a series of fences, some electrified, and includes trenches, roads, barbed wire, cameras, trace paths for foot- prints, and buffer zones.
	www.pcusa.org /washington/issuenet/gs-030910.htm (761 words)

	An Appeal from the Residents of Qalqiliya
		We send this appeal from the district of Qalqiliya, from all the villages and locations that are being razed by the fatal Apartheid Wall which is set up above our lands and on our spirits and our chests.
		This is an appeal for help and an honor sent from the hearts of thousands of children, women and elders whose trees are being uprooted, whose lands are being razed, whose elders and children are being beaten daily.
		Fifth: We appeal the Palestinian Authority to provide support and aid, as well as facilitate all organizations to make an effort and provide assistance to the thousands of families who have lost their main income and source of livelihood due to the building of the Wall.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3668.htm (432 words)

	MEI: Letter from Qalqiliya
		We are sitting beneath a portrait of the late Palestinian leader in the mayor’s office in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya.
		This may prove difficult in Qalqiliya: the newly elected mayor, Wajih Qawas, is currently serving a 32-month term in an Israeli jail for unspecified “terrorist offences”.
		Historically, Qalqiliya was known not only as a nationalist town but a moderate one.
	www.meionline.com /backcover/377.shtml (720 words)

	Town Votes Hamas Out of Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Yet residents were not satisfied, and in a stunningly swift change of heart voted for candidates of the rival Fatah Party in last month's parliamentary election.
		Hamas' defeat in Qalqiliya — in contrast to its landslide victory just about everywhere else in the West Bank and Gaza — highlights the obstacles ahead as the militant group tries to rule an impoverished, impatient population.
		The reversal in Qalqiliya was born of voter fickleness, annoyance with Hamas' efforts to impose order and residents' demands for quick improvements in their lives.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/27/international/i104248S61.DTL (883 words)

	Atrocities of War: Qalqiliya and the Apartheid Wall
		Such is the building of the Apartheid Wall at Qalqiliya in Palestine, such is the immense concrete cage around Qalqiliya.
		What's happening in the ghetto-ized city of Qalqiliya, is certainly one of the signature frightful events of the Israeli-Palestinian War.
		Prevent the residents of Qalqiliya from being able to water and tend their groves of olive trees and citrus trees and you cut a livelihood - and a people - off at the knees.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/Hamilton_Apartheid-Wall.htm (1295 words)

	Palestinian Moslems Torch West B
		In April, major Moslem organizations in Qalqiliya, in conjunction with local mosques, the city's Mufti and municipal leaders, sent a letter to the interior minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority accusing the YMCA of missionary activities and demanding the Palestinian government immediately shut down the Christian offices.
		The petition, obtained by WND, states, "We the preachers of the mosques and representatives of major families in Qalqiliya ask you to close the offices of the YMCA because the population of Qalqiliya doesn't need such offices, especially since there are not many Christians in our city."
		He said the YMCA was instrumental in establishing a number of community programs, including contributing to the financing of the Al Ahli Club, a mostly Moslem local soccer organization that has competed in national games.
	www.falange.us /hamas910.htm (1162 words)

	MIFTAH--Special Report on the West Bank Security Barrier
		The cost is estimated at NIS 10 million per kilometre and is expected to be completed by July 2003.1 The Government of Israel maintains that barrier is not intended to mark a political border but to prevent Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians.
		Population figures for the main towns are Qalqiliya, 41,000; Tulkarm, 43,000; Jenin, 34,000.3 In total, nearly 70 towns, villages, hamlets and refugee camps in the three governorates - over 200,000 Palestinians - will be impacted to some degree in the barrier's first phase.4
		It is unclear how these traditional ways can be adapted to the proposal by the Israeli authorities to issue permits which will limit the number and times which farmers can use the agricultural crossing points.
	www.miftah.org /Display.cfm?DocId=2197&CategoryId=21 (3863 words)

	CAMERA: AP Article on Palestinian Emigration Blames Only Israel
		About 10 percent of Qalqiliya's 40,000 people have left during the past three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
		Nowhere in the article is it noted that numerous terrorists from Qalqiliya have committed mass casualty attacks in Israel.
		Israel considers Qalqiliyato be such a hotbed of terrorism, that it has indeed, in a rare security measure, enclosed the town with the barrier, providing access through checkpoints.
	www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=2&x_article=644 (1653 words)

	Senior Muslim Clerics in Palestine Criticized for Fatwa Calling to Close Local YMCA: Free Muslims Coalition
		"The city of Qalqiliya is not a center of racist discrimination, nor does it serve as a haven for the dismantling of national and religious unity.
		It arouses religious zealotry, and it leads to internal strife that Qalqiliya, which is fenced in on all four sides, does not need at this point in time.
		"The people of Qalqiliya, who are threatened by the danger of isolation and suffocation, desire the unity and harmony of the nation - rather than calls for racist or religious discrimination.
	www.freemuslims.org /news/article.php?article=1438 (570 words)

	Child Unable to Pass Through the Apartheid Wall Dies
		Mohamed Hashem, a two year old child from the village of Ras Atieh south of Qalqiliya died Sunday, February 8, 2004 as his family, imprisoned behind the Apartheid Wall, was not able to reach emergency medical attention.
		As there is no hospital in the village, the father decided to take the child to Qalqiliya, however, the Apartheid Wall’s gate between Habla and Qalqiliya was closed, and there were no soldiers present to open it.
		With the Wall “completed” around the two villages, all residents are now forced to travel an extra 30 km to reach Qalqiliya instead of a mere three km, the actual distance between them and the city.
	www.ifamericansknew.org /cur_sit/wall-child.html (375 words)

	RedOrbit - General - Israel to Hand Palestinians 2 More Towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Israel is considering a deal that would shield wanted Palestinian militants from Israeli arrest provided they halt attacks and remain in their towns, officials said Sunday.
		Early Sunday, Israeli soldiers raided the home of an Islamic Jihad leader in Qalqiliya and arrested him ahead of the planned withdrawal.
		Qalqiliya Mayor Maarof Zahran said residents barely feel the soldiers' presence - they enter the town for night raids and often remain on the outskirts during the day - but checkpoints prevent people from getting to work.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=11653 (648 words)

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