Tulkarm aims to renovate century-old Ottoman train tunnel - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Ibrahim Abdelhadi

Aug 14, 2017

An Ottoman era railway tunnel in Balaa, the West Bank, is seen in a still from a video uploaded on March 20, 2017. — YouTube/Rashid Faddah

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