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- The movement of the shuttles that draw the pattern of the keffiyeh. 45 years later, the Hebron workshop makes around 15,000 pieces per year, against 150,000 in its heyday.

- I feel lonely, I work here all alone, I sometimes work 5 or 7 hours. We used to be 15 workers.

- It used to work 8-hour shifts. But now keffiyehs are imported from China. They cost 2 dollars 50, 3 times less expensive than local scarves. 90% of the scarves on market.

- Here, the weaving cost is higher. You pay more the worker, so as a result the cost price is higher. And thus we can’t compete with them.

- A symbol of the Palestinians and Yasser Arafat, it is hard for Palestinian keffiyehs to go out of the Territories, penalized by the Israeli checkpoints.

- So the few tourists and young people with a low purchasing power are the ones who buy the scarves.

- I may sell one Palestinian scarf per month, Chinese models are the ones I sell most, but when you wash them, once or twice, the color comes off.

- Conscious of the threat that weights over Palestinian goods such as shoes, ceramics or keffiyehs, the authorities decided that they would increase the import rights.

- When a Palestinian salesman imports Chinese goods, such as keffiyehs or something else, he must now pay a higher price to import them.

- The result is that the price of imported goods becomes almost equivalent to the price of local goods.

- In 4 months, Chinese imports would have lowered a 30%. The future will tell if this will be enough to save the Hebron workshop, symbol of a Palestinian economy that ticks over.

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