It would have been very easy for the village of Wadi Fukin to have been erased. Caught in firefightsalongthearmis�celinebetween Israel and Jordan1, the village was twice demolished and in 1954, its residents forced out to Dheisheh refugee camp in nearby Bethlehem. Thirteen years later, Israel had occupied the area and began inves�nginse�lementprojectsthatswallowedup residents’ agricultural lands.
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