Beyond this gate lies Rachel’s Tomb. The area, with shops and several beautiful traditional homes with gardens of fragrant jasmine and olive trees, is now a wasteland, the buildings and businesses largely abandoned – over 90 per cent of the shops and commercial establishments in this area have closed or relocated, UN oCHA reports. Artwork by Blu (detail and drawing), Who’s paying for this? by Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillips, and With love and kisses by the New York collective, faile. (Drawing reproduced with the permissionw of Blu.)
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