Arab Hospital Protest
United Press International
JERUSALEM —
Shops in Arab East Jerusalem shut their doors Wednesday to protest the Israeli closing of the Hospice Hospital, the last hospital in the Old City, police said. The Health Ministry announced this month that it was closing the facility but would maintain it as a clinic. Its patients are mostly Arabs.
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