{"id":6370,"date":"1998-01-20T17:41:00","date_gmt":"1998-01-20T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:00:37","slug":"telecommunications-in-palestine-growing-pains-english-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1998\/01\/telecommunications-in-palestine-growing-pains-english-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecommunications in Palestine: Growing Pains (English\/Arabic)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in Al-Quds newspaper (Palestine) on January 20, 1998 and in the Al-Haya newspaper (UK) on February 18, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n        <div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-2fd20fb630df233dbbc933dc73d6c052\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content aligncenter ep-percentage-width ep-content-share-enabled ep-share-position-right ep-content-protection-disabled\">\n            <div class=\"embedpress-inner-iframe emebedpress-unit-percent 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