[IsraelTimes] Another winter in the Balata refugee camp. And as the years go by, nothing here changes for the better. The same poor infrastructure, overcrowding, and poverty.Dozens of people fill the streets. It's not a holiday, just a day like any other. Overwhelming youth unemployment rates -- 56 percent, according to Paleostinian Authority statistics -- explain why there are so many people idly wandering the alleyways.
The largest and one of most notorious of the camps, central to the anti-Israel violence and terrorism of the first and second intifadas, Balata sits only a few kilometers from the heart of Nablus. But the gap between the camp's 30,000 residents and the city's has never been greater.