Articles by Kieron Monks
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East Jerusalem Suffers Heroin Plague
Kieron Monks – Al Jazeera,
11 Jul 2011
Activists fight to save addicts in towns without prospects or security. In the town of Al Ram, pressed up against Israel’s Separation Barrier, degradation has set in. Once a lively suburb of Jerusalem, since 2006 it has been locked out by the Barrier, which surrounds it on three sides. The effect of this sudden disconnection from the city has been devastating. One-third of all businesses have been forced to close, 75 per cent of youths under 24 are unemployed, and around half of the town’s 62,000 residents have been denied the ID they require to enter Jerusalem.
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