Hunting the Qalqilya Jawaafa

PeriBlog XIV: Qalqilya, Palestine

A bin of Jawaafa, Qalqilya’s greatest export. All photographs by the author.

Jawaafa? Jawaafa?

Jawaafa!

Our orange Service, the seven passenger van carrying us back to Ramallah, scoots to the side of the road. What is it? An Israeli roadblock? Some kind of trouble ahead?

The three men sitting in the middle of the van jump out and rush a roadside vegetable…