RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad launched on Monday a new door-to-door campaign aimed at "cleansing" shops in the West Bank of goods produced in Israeli settlements.
The so-called "Shop-to-Shop" campaign is part of a months-old boycott that has seen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority impose fines and even jail sentences on merchants who trade in settlement goods.
"This is a new campaign, and an important part of the efforts, both official and popular, to cleanse the market of all settlements goods by the end of the year," Fayyad told reporters on a visit to a supermarket in Ramallah.
"This is also part of our efforts to bring about economic independence and self-sufficiency on the path to freedom and the end of the occupation," he said, referring to his plan to build the institutions of an independent state by the middle of next year with or without a peace agreement with Israel.
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