![An employee works on a computer at Isra Software & Computer Co., an e-commerce firm in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 8, 2013. Fledgling Palestinian high-tech firms hope they can An employee works on a computer at Isra Software & Computer Co., an e-commerce firm in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 8, 2013. Fledgling Palestinian high-tech firms hope they can](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2D0THEN/an-employee-works-on-a-computer-at-isra-software-computer-co-an-e-commerce-firm-in-the-west-bank-city-of-nablus-april-8-2013-fledgling-palestinian-high-tech-firms-hope-they-can-now-help-revitalise-the-economy-making-the-west-bank-more-resistant-to-israeli-controls-on-land-and-the-movement-of-goods-and-people-and-less-dependent-on-fickle-foreign-aid-flows-which-are-blighting-the-public-sector-picture-taken-april-8-2013-to-match-feature-palestinians-hitech-reutersmohamad-torokman-west-bank-tags-science-technology-business-politics-2D0THEN.jpg)
An employee works on a computer at Isra Software & Computer Co., an e-commerce firm in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 8, 2013. Fledgling Palestinian high-tech firms hope they can
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Employees work on computers at Exalt Technologies, a company which deals in research and development outsourcing from Cisco and French-American group Lucent-Alcatel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 7, 2013.
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