A Palestinian activist says 80 percent of West Bank shops no longer carry products from six major Israel food companies, as a boycott takes hold.
Fatah activists gave shops until this weekend to remove the products.
Campaign leader Abdullah Kmail says that 20 percent of the shops still carry some Israeli goods, but “are getting rid of what they have.”
He says the boycott in its current form would end if tax transfers from Israel resume, but that appeals to consumers to shun Israeli goods will continue.
ToI’s Elhanan Miller, reporting from Ramallah, wrote last week that Palestinian vendors were “noticeably unmoved” by the boycott, and that shelves remained stocked with Israeli food products.
Israeli-manufactured ketchup bottles crowd the shelf of a Ramallah grocery shop, February 24, 2015 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
— AP, Times of Israel staff
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