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Hebron, Palestine

Maram Salim on where to spot graffiti and taste sheep’s neck.

HEBRON IS ONE of the world’s oldest continuously occupied cities—evidence of human outposts dates back to the Bronze Age—yet it is branded by recent turmoil. In 1968, the occupying Israeli government authorized the Palestinian city’s first Jewish settlement. Three decades later, in 1997, Hebron was divided into two districts: H-1, which comprises 80 percent of the municipality and is run by the Palestinian Authority, and the smaller H-2, which is controlled by Israel. Owing to this

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