WEST BANK – There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it’s going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction.
This is the story of one such day last Tuesday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank – the other Palestinian territory.
It’s morning as our NPR team is traveling from Tel Aviv to the West Bank to see a small town called Deir Istiya, and to meet a 54-year-old farmer named Ayoub Abuhejleh. When we arrive at his home, he invites us inside and makes us Arabic coffee.
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