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Green Line village facilitates black market transactions into Israel
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Israel, West Bank 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 news roundup for April 29, 2008.

Barta'a, an Arab village on the Green Line, has become a de facto Free Trade Zone, through which black market transactions benefit Israeli businesses that take advantage of Palestinian prices.

Half of the village is inside Israel, and other half in the West Bank. It was divided after the 1948 War of Independence, but with the Six Day War in 1967, it was informally reunited.


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he western half of the city is subject to Israeli law, and the eastern half is under Palestinian civilian control. But travel between the two halves is now possible, and along with it, cheap shopping for Israeli citizens.



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