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	Qalqilya
		The city of Qalqilya, located in the northwest of the West Bank, has its roots and origins in the Canaaite era.
		Qalqilya is situated about 12 km from the Mediterranean coast, on the border between Israel and the West Bank.
		Qalqilya has a temperate Mediterranean climate; rainy and warm in winter, hot in summer with humidity levels reaching 70% during July and August.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/palestine/qalqilya.htm (129 words)

	Qalqilya Strangled by Israel’s Wall
		Ringing the city of Qalqilya is its agricultural wealth.
		The cultivation techniques developed by Palestinian farmers over the centuries are characterized by the intense development of small plots of land, extensive use of greenhouses, and the jealous conservation of water.
		In looking at a map of the wall at Qalqilya, it is clear that it wraps tightly around the city, butts up close around other Palestinian villages, yet swings wide and generously around every settlement, thereby allowing for future expansion.
	wrmea.com /archives/Oct_2004/0410048.html (1141 words)

	Qalqilya \| Semitism.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The end result, with regard to Qalqilya, is that it is completely encircled, with only one entrance, closely guarded by the IDF.
		Qalqilya is not a hotbed of militancy - before the wall, it was mainly known for its flowers, and Israeli florists would travel there for bargains every weekend.
		Qalqilya also sits atop the edge of the western aquifer, and has some of the best water in the territories.
	www.semitism.net /node/view/118 (371 words)

	More About Qalqilya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Qalqilya sits on the largest aquifer in Palestine but Israel allows it access to only 6% of its water supply and has built 8 pumps around the city to remove its water for Jewish use.
		Qalqilya is home to the hospital that serves the surrounding towns and villages as well as to the UN Hospital which provides free care to UN refugees and charges for care for others.
		The clinics in Qalqilya used to focus on preventative health care and education, and organizing teams of doctors to visit the villages to provide health care where there are no clinics, leaving emergency workto the hospitals.
	riqa.info /aboutqalqilya.htm (3742 words)

	The Psychological Implications of Israel’s Separation Wall on Palestinians
		In conducting the pilot phase of a study concerning psychological effects of the Wall on Qalqilya and surrounding village residents, PCC found that unemployment among study participants who were able to work is 72%.
		Qalqilya and the surrounding villages, which were once a very productive and economically established area, now have the characteristics of a ghetto (since the building of the Apartheid Wall).
		Qalqilya area residents do not have adequate access to work, education and healthcare and are not able to travel freely to gain this access.
	www.ifamericansknew.org /cur_sit/psych-wall.html (2488 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Of fences and crossings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gone with Qalqilya's confiscated land will be 14 wells, some 30 per cent of the city's water supply and a major source of irrigation for the city's farmers as well as those in the villages.
		Qalqilya sits on the biggest of four acquifers in the West Bank and there is more than a suspicion that Israel, desperately short of water, intends to take a larger share of the supply once it controls more of the land above the acquifer.
		Qalqilya is hemmed in by two large illegal Israeli settlements, Tzofim in the north and Alfei Menashe in the south.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/611/re3.htm (1982 words)

	Ramallah Online - FEATURE: In the shadow of Sharon's wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Qalqilya is a lovely town, an ancient Canaanite town, home to approximately 45,000 Palestinian men, women and children.
		For centuries, Qalqilya's citizens have risen each morning to work their fields, returning in the evening to their families, friends and neighbours.
		Qalqilya is on the Green Line, the border between what became Israeli in 1948 and the Palestinian territory Israel occupied in 1967.
	www.ramallahonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1804&mode=&order=0&thold=0 (949 words)

	PALESTINE MONITOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The governorate of Qalqilya is comprised of 32 villages with approximately 72,000 Palestinians and 19 illegal Israeli colonies with an estimated illegal Israeli settler population of 50,700 (as of January 1, 2000).
		The Qalqilya Wall, together with the rest of the "security wall", is built in such a way as to give Israel near total control to the highest productive zones of this aquifer basin.
		The Qalqilya wall violates the central obligation of the Occupying Power to guarantee the well being and basic sustenance for the occupied civilian population.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/factsheet_wall.htm (5143 words)

	Worldandnation: A concrete chasm
		The only ways in and out of Qalqilya are through two gates, open for brief periods so farmers can reach their fields, and an Israeli checkpoint at the only road into town.
		And if Qalqilya continues in a virtual lock-down state, the chicken farm will close and 50 people will be out of work, he says.
		By shutting off Qalqilya, one of the region's biggest cities, the fence also affects many smaller Palestinian villages whose residents work in the city, teach in its schools or rely on its hospital.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/12/Worldandnation/A_concrete_chasm.shtml (2649 words)

	Voted in, Hamas Sets a West Bank City Astir - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hashem el-Masri, Qalqilya's acting mayor (the elected mayor is in an Israeli jail), in a prayer break.
		The struggle between Fatah and Hamas is a prime topic for conversation far beyond Qalqilya, a town divided only by a highway and Israel's separation barrier from the Israeli city of Kfar Sava, with which it shares a water and sewage plant.
		Qalqilya "is already under siege from the Israeli wall," said Mr.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/04/international/middleeast/04hamas.html?ex=1288760400&en=f882fc74e5f812a9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1045 words)

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		The governorate of Qalqilya is comprised of 32 villages with approximately 86,00072,000 Palestinians and 19 illegal Israeli colonies with an estimated illegal Israeli settler population of 50,700 (as of January 1, 2000).
		The Qalqilya Qalqilya Wall Violates the Fourth Geneva Convention:: “No government, even under extreme provocation, is justified in taking the law into its own hand” The construction of the Qalqilya wall violates the Fourth Geneva Convention’’s prohibition of extensive destruction and exappropriation of property located in occupied territory not justified by military necessity.
		The Qalqilya wall violates the Oslo Agreements’’ requirement to preserve the territorial integrity of the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The two sides view the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a single territorial unit, the integrity and status of which will be preserved during the interim period.
	www.osa.ceu.hu /galeria/the_divide/cpt15files/bad_fences_focus_on_qalqiliya.doc (2685 words)

	Palestine Report - October 9, 2002 - Vol 9 No 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Qalqilya is located on the edge of Israel's narrow waistline, and has gone through similar power struggles in the past.
		Qalqilya's residents were taken in Israeli buses and cars either to Jordan or Nablus and other cities, not a soul was left in Qalqilya.
		Indeed, Qalqilya is suffering badly from the economic effects of this siege, and talk of indirect but forced transfer of the Palestinian residents is on everybody's tongue.
	www.jmcc.org /media/report/02/Oct/2.htm (3362 words)

	UNRWA: emergency appeal: the West Bank wall fence
		Qalqilya town is surrounded on all sides by the Barrier.
		Qalqilya lost about 28,000 dunums of land in 1948, leaving 9,400 dunums, approximately 3,500 dunums of developed, urban land with an additional 5,900 dunums of agricultural land surrounding the city.
		Qalqilya lies on the Western Aquifer Basin, one of the largest sources of ground water the West Bank.
	www.un.org /unrwa/emergency/barrier/profiles/qalqilya.html (2323 words)

	Building a Wall, Sealing the Occupation
		"Qalqilya used to export fruit and vegetables as far as the Gulf," explained the mayor, Marouf Zahran, as he stood on the edge of fields now off limits to Palestinian farmers.
		During the 1990s, negotiations designated Qalqilya as part of Area A--the disconnected enclaves in the West Bank and Gaza which were under the security and administrative control of the Palestinian Authority until the successive Israeli invasions of 2002.
		Back in Qalqilya, Marouf Zahran shows journalists the new palm trees being planted to replace those cut down by Israeli tanks during the incursions of the spring and summer, conveying his unspoken understanding that the seedlings will probably be destroyed when tanks next rumble into town.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0211/021113.htm (1614 words)

	Lawrence of Cyberia: Enough For Qalqilya
		Qalqilya is the westernmost city in the Occupied West Bank (see map), lying close up against the Green Line.
		The gate on the south side may or may not be opened (at the whim of the soldiers on duty) three times a day for fifteen minutes each time, to allow children to travel to and from school and for farmers to access their fields.
		Four thousand residents of Qalqilya have left the town in the past year; another two thousand heads of families have left home in search of work, leaving their families behind in the city.
	lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com /news/2004/09/enough_for_qalq.html (1565 words)

	Thirsting to breathe \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		I came to Qalqilya from the nearby town of Jayeous where I had been hosted by one of the region's most respected hydrologists, Abdul-latif Khaled.
		As I approached the checkpoint into Qalqilya and got a panoramic look at the wall surrounding the city, I had an image of a giant levee, a circular dam blocking the flow of water into an encircled and dry interior.
		I was parked at the one gate in Qalqilya that opens for 20 minutes in the mornings, noon and evenings to allow people to pass between the city and their agricultural fields and greenhouses lying outside the barrier, and from their farms and greenhouses back to the city.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040801/news_mz1e1fields.html (1568 words)

	Gainesville's sister cities in Palestine & Israel: Making the connections
		Marouf Zahran, Mayor of Qalqilya, Gainesville's Palestinian sister city, writing on behalf of the municipal council, the staff and the citizens of Qalqilya, extended "deepest condolences to the American people for the tragic loss of the innocent victims of the evil act that took place on 11.9.2001 in New York and Washington."
		Qalqilya was one of six West Bank cities occupied by Israeli Defense Forces last Fall in response to the assassination of a cabinet minister.
		Qalqilya was not immediately targeted when the Israeli Defense Forces began a massive operation on the West Bank in March of this year.
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/2002_05/20020501.html (1247 words)

	The wall goes on and on and on...
		I visited the city of Qalqilya and several villages in the area, including Jayyous.
		In Qalqilya, Mayor Marouf Zahran told me that the owners of more than 600 shops have informed the municipality that they are closing.
		Qalqilya is situated in the most water-rich area of the whole West Bank.
	www.ccmep.org /2003_articles/Palestine/042503_wall_goes_on_and_on_and_on.htm (1419 words)

	IslamOnline - Views Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 45,000 residents of Qalqilya live encircled by a concrete wall, farmland and significant water supplies beyond their reach on the other side of the wall.
		As the mayor of Qalqilya showed journalists around the ghetto that was his town, we met a man whose home, next to the wall, was about to be destroyed.
		Although Qalqilya is not featured in the news as towns such as Bethlehem and Ramallah, it is of vital strategic importance.
	www.islamonline.net /English/Views/2002/09/article16.shtml (1401 words)

	USAID WB/G - MISSION HEADLINES
		The oxygen generator, the first in Qalqilya, is one of a series that Maram is installing at under-equipped hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza.
		Umaiye Khammash, chief of party for Maram, said, "The importance of Qalqilya Hospital, which has seen a 300% increase in its patient-load since the start of the Intifada to possess its own oxygen generator system cannot be overestimated.
		Qalqilya Hospital serves refugees and non-refugees within the city of Qalqilya and 32 surrounding villages, as well as villages and refugee camps outside Nablus.
	www.usaid.gov /wbg/headline_137.htm (316 words)

	Palestinians say wall is a noose \| csmonitor.com
		Qalqilya's land loss from the wall's detour will be compounded by a security zone extending 60 to 100 meters from the wall.
		Qalqilya's experience will be telling, as it is wealthier than other towns in the wall's path.
		Now, as Qalqilya struggles in the aftermath of that bombing and others like it, Malki insists that Qalqilya's residents are standing firm.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0227/p06s01-wome.html (1157 words)

	PROFILE: SECURITY BARRIER BEING CONSTRUCTED BY ISRAEL DISRUPTS THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS
		The mayor of Kal Qalqilya takes the wheel of the municipality's white van and heads west to the Israeli-constructed cordon of metal, concrete and razor wire that encircles the entire city of 41,000.
		Mayor MAROUF ZAHRAN (Kal Qalqilya): We are driving to the wall, we are in the many streets of the town, and we are just 500 meters from this wall, which is going all around the town.
		Mayor Zahran says encircling Kal Qalqilya also undermines Israel's own future because, he says, the enclosure is certain to strengthen already growing public support in the town for parties such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, determined foes of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2003/sep/030903.mccarthy.html (1657 words)

	Hamas finding fertile ground Armed group gains with voters - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Middle East - News
		QALQILYA, West Bank -- Palestinians here on the front lines are catching their collective breath after 4 1/2 years of bloody conflict with their Israeli neighbors, and looking for leadership out of the mess they are in.
		Two-thirds of Qalqilya's 45,000 residents live in poverty, dozens of joint ventures with the Israelis have collapsed, and nearly half of the city's agricultural land is on the ''other" side of the maze of walls and fences that Israel built to contain this former center of suicide bombers and snipers.
		The distress of the populace is fertile ground for the armed Islamist group Hamas, which swept the municipal elections here last month and is gaining ground steadily in national legislative elections that were scheduled for July.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/06/05/hamas_finding_fertile_ground?mode=PF (1577 words)

	ei: The mayor of Qalqilya explains the impact of Israel's apartheid wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mayor of Qalqilya, Marouf Zahran explains the impact of Israel's apartheid on his town.
		The ultimate goal of erecting this wall is to confiscate and expropriate Palestinian land as well as forcibly impoverishing the Qalqilya residents by denying them means to a livelihood and access to natural resources. Approximately 3,000 dunums of agricultural land have been or will be confiscated.
		Residents of Qalqilya are imprisoned in the town, cut off from neighboring Palestinian villages and the rest of the West Bank.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article1724.shtml (586 words)

	Wall in West Bank severs peaceful ties \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		QALQILYA, West Bank -- The southwestern entryway of this Palestinian town was once lined with bustling restaurants and vegetable stands welcoming Israeli bargain hunters from the city of Kfar Saba, a five-minute drive across the open border.
		In Qalqilya, a central street has been nicknamed alte-zachen, Yiddish for "old things," after the furniture repair workshops that attracted Israeli antique buyers.
		"Qalqilya will be like Kandahar," he said, referring to the restive city in southern Afghanistan that was the spiritual home of the Taliban.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/0204/24iswall.html (858 words)

	IRFAN: A Hamas front organization operating in Canada - Appendix F
		Its head is sheikh Bilal Hanoun, a Hamas activists and chairman of the PA’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments in Qalqilya.
		The Committee supports the poor and orphaned, provides tuition for school and university students, distributes equipment to schools, participates in in-service medical courses abroad for doctors, subsidizes medical treatment for the indigent, provides medical treatment at its own facilities, operates Qur’an study centers and runs educational institutions for children and youth.
		Inspector of orphans for the Qalqilya Charitable Committee,
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/11_04/irfan_app_f.htm (375 words)

	UNRWA: emergency appeal: the West Bank wall fence
		However, over the course of 2004 and into 2005, the band of those eligible to apply has narrowed significantly to the point that generally only landowners and their immediate relatives (wife, brother, sister, son or daughter) are eligible for permits.
		In the Qalqilya area, although the Israeli Civil Administration notified the Palestinian authorities and some villages that grandchildren of the owner would no longer be eligible, grandchildren are still being issued permits.
		The PA school in Ras ‘Atiya is located twenty metres from the barrier and structural damage to the building was caused by the use of explosives during construction of the barrier.
	www.un.org /unrwa/emergency/barrier/profiles/alfei.html (2667 words)

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