Wednesday 1 June 2016

The opening of a vital street in the northern West Bank with US funding



Nablus (Ina) - celebrated on Wednesday (June 1, 2016), opened the main road link between the town ofHawara and the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank after his rehabilitation, at a cost of $ 5.3 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 
It was the opening ceremony with the participation of Prime Minister Palestinian Rami Hamdallah, theyear the US consul in Jerusalem Donald Bloom, the director of USAID in Palestine David Harden, and anumber of Palestinian officials. 
the United States agency for international development said the project began in November 2015, it connects the street of central and southern West Bank with Nablus and the northern city of West Bank, and the estimated annual number of flights individuals on this important road 8.7 million people. 
she added that this equity investment in improving the conditions of travel on the road, and reduce travel time, increased trade traffic between the northern and southern regions. 
as has been the provision of parking for vehicles which facilitates the process of loading and unloading goods without affecting the traffic. 
It continued cooperation with the Ministry of public Works and the Palestinian housing, the United States Agency for the rehabilitation of 3.2 kilometers of road, and the construction of three fields (roundabout) in the beta, and the creation of piers, columns and lighting, road signs, paintings ,illustrations, and in addition to therefore, created the project 11 thousand business days. 
the agency said that the infrastructure funded by the Agency projects, created over 127 thousand temporary jobs for the Palestinians since 2003, as well as to promote economic growth and improve living conditions in the West Bank. 
for his part, thank God , he said in Addressing the opening ceremony: "We are gathered today to put another building block in our state, and one of the most prominent infrastructure projects, at a time when our country is still reeling under the weight of occupation and settlement, and cut it apart, and besieging Gaza since a decade, and the suffering of its people from the progressive and crippling levels of poverty the disease, unemployment, pollution, where the Israeli government tend towards more extremism, racism and broadcast leaders of hatred and incitement against our people, and Mulls its soldiers and settlers have to commit the most heinous crimes and acts of torture, they aim behind all ofthis, to the confiscation of the elements of our nation and robbed its sovereignty and geographical contiguity, and stifle the national economy . " . 
Praise be to God , and pointed to the significant impact of road projects to improve real life, she said she head engine of economic growth and the basis for the development of the desired, absorbing labor, and provide thousands of jobs, and the active commercial movement, and connecting the industrial areas and agricultural lands. 

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