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Construction on Muslim Cemetery Brings Mistrust Between Jaffa’s Arabs and Israeli Authorities to Boiling Point

Five consecutive days of protests and clashes with police are sign of a much broader issueThe root of the protest that erupted Tuesday in Jaffa and ended with road blockages, stone throwing and confrontations with police was officially the destruction of a Muslim burial ground for the building of a homeless shelter. But beneath the surface it seems this is not just a struggle over respect for the dead, but a war over much broader problems Jaffa residents are having with the authorities..

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