Israël Palestine Road infrastructure strategy
USAID in Palestine: Building Roads to Cut Off the People | Al Akhbar
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Published Friday, July 6, 2012
By: Abbad Yehya
USAID in Palestine: Building Roads to Cut Off the People
A young Palestinian protester runs away from Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on 22 June 2012.
So very far from the network of old roads present since before the British mandate — and far from the winding settler roads that cover close to 2 percent of the area of the West Bank — there, in the valleys and mountains of Palestine, USAID is building alternative roads that will become the main transportation network for Palestinians.
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad marketed the new roads as part of his plan to establish a Palestinian state. He was proud that the roads would intersect areas B and J, which comprise 80 percent of the West Bank and touted them as “Palestinian” development projects.