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JERUSALEM Canada Goose online (Reuters) Kafr Aqab Canada Goose Jackets is no one dream destination: the overcrowded neighbourhood separated from adjacent East Jerusalem by Israel barrier in the occupied West Bank is notorious uk canada goose for rutted roads, drugs and violence.

Haya Khader, a Palestinian teacher from East Jerusalem, canada goose smiles during an interview with Reuters in Kfar Aqab on the outskirts of Jerusalem, near the West Bank City of Ramallah, November 7, 2017. Picture taken November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

But canada goose uk shop for Palestinians in marriages in which one canada goose uk black friday partner comes from the West Bank and the other from territory Israel had declared to be part of the Israeli state, the slum is a haven where they can live legally together.

When 23 year old Yacout Alqam, a resident of East canada goose store Jerusalem, canada goose uk outlet first met her fianc, she uk canada goose outlet loved that he was kind. Very free. Everything.

There was just one catch: problem of identification cards, said Alqam, the wide smile on her small frame fading.

Hailing from East Jerusalem, Alqam carries an Israeli issued Jerusalem residency card, which provides her many benefits but not actual citizenship. Israel annexed the area after the 1967 Middle East war in a move not recognised internationally.

Haya Khader, a Palestinian teacher from East Jerusalem, picks lemons cheap canada goose uk in Kfar Aqab on the outskirts of Jerusalem, near the West Bank City of Ramallah, November 7, 2017. Picture taken November 7, 2017.

Holding a West Bank identification card, Lateefa cannot, canada goose black friday sale under Israeli rules, live in East Jerusalem. Alqam cannot live in the West Bank without risking the loss of buy canada goose jacket cheap her residency permit, as she must prove she resides in Jerusalem to keep canada goose coats on sale it.

So along with what residents describe as apartments full of other couples, he and cheap Canada Goose Alqam see a solution in a sort of twilight zone, canada goose clearance in Kafr Aqab.

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Since its inhabitants pay Jerusalem municipal taxes, Alqam can live in Kafr Aqab and still be considered an East Jerusalem resident. And because Israel barrier and a military checkpoint separate Kafr Aqab from the city, her fiance can canada goose clearance sale reside there, even with his West Bank identification card.

Thanks to Canada Goose sale its special status, Kafr Aqab, once Canada Goose Coats On Sale a small neighbourhood buy canada goose jacket of several thousand people, now has a population in the tens of thousands who live in dilapidated high rise buildings where canada goose coats apartments sell for about a quarter of what they cost in the rest of East Jerusalem.

Haya Khader, Canada Goose Parka coats a Palestinian teacher from East Jerusalem, married her high school sweetheart, a West Bank resident, 18 years go. Soon after they wed, a Palestinian uprising erupted and Israel built the barrier, calling it Canada Goose Online a bulwark against attacks on its cities. Palestinians see it as a land grab.

Khader said she hates living in Kafr Aqab, where she said one is responsible for us canadagoose-online-shop leading to poor municipal services.

Khader said she is resigned to the situation. But Alqam is holding out hope Canada Goose Outlet that her fianc will canadian goose jacket be granted a permit to live in canada goose factory sale Jerusalem through Israel family unification law.