Protesting Palestinian truck drivers block streets
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Dozens of Palestinian truck drivers have blocked the main streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah to protest rising prices.
Nearby, about two dozen quarry workers also held a demonstration. The Sunday protests were the latest in a series of small but snowballing strikes against the Western-backed Palestinian Authority over rising prices and delayed payment of salaries to more than 150,000 civil servants.
The Palestinian Authority, which governs Palestinians in the West Bank, is suffering a budgetary shortfall because the U.S. and Arab countries that sustain it haven't paid all the aid money that they have promised.
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Palestinian officials have done little to calm the protests, saying the unrest reflects popular anger over foreign donors' failure to deliver money they have promised.