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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=194096
PA Indicts, Jails Palestinian Merchant for Buying from Jewish Settlement
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian merchant from Bethlehem has been indicted for violating a Palestinian Authority call to boycott goods made in settlements. He has been charged with "carrying out commercial transactions with residents of a hostile state," the Bethlehem-based Maan news agency reported. The man, who is being held in a PA prison, was caught trying to bring in wood products manufactured in a settlement, said Amin Abu Akil, director of the Customs Authority in the Bethlehem area. A PA magistrate's court remanded the suspect into custody until the end of proceedings.