About Pal-Online
Daily life and livelihoods in Palestine, in English: who is working today, at what, and for how much.
What we do
Most reporting on Palestine is told by event. Pal-Online tells it by livelihood: the teacher back in a classroom with a tarp for a wall, the builder who now charges phones, the farmer who cannot reach his trees.
Each person is a block on the site, with their trade, their town and what they are paid. Prices, salaries and closed roads are reported by what they do to someone’s working day.
People on the wall
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named in reports since 27 September
How we report
Six rules every page keeps.
A person before a number
Every story starts with someone at work: a name, a trade, a place. The figures come after, to show how many others share it.
Every figure keeps its source and date
A number on Pal-Online always says who gave it and when. Competing counts sit side by side and are never averaged.
Pay is as the worker told it
Rates are given in the currency people are paid in, as they told the reporter, with what the pay has to cover.
We say what we could not check
When something rests on one person’s word, or a report we could not open, the page says so.
Names can be changed, and we say so
Some people speak at risk. We change their names on request and mark the change, never silently.
Photographs show what the caption says
We do not pair a story with a photograph of someone else. Archive photographs carry their year and say that the people named are not in them.
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