West Bank and Gaza in different time zones
Date: 30 / 08 / 2008 Time: 15:22
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Gaza - Ma'an - Gaza ended daylight savings time at midnight on Friday, and
the West Bank will change its clocks back one hour on Monday 1 September.

Even though only three days separate the time change in the two territories,
(On Saturday it will be three o'clock in the West Bank and two o'clock in
Gaza) the difference is disturbing Palestinian citizens.

Palestinians hope that this holy month Ramadan will put an end to the
internal division. They want all citizens and politicians in both parts of
the country to use one telescope to see the crescent moon that will announce
the start of the month of fasting.

The decisions on when to end daylight savings time came from the de facto
government in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority caretaker government for
the West Bank respectively.

One university student in Gaza noted that, in terms of time, Gaza and the
West Bank are as far away from each other as Saudi Arabia and Morocco, "and
that is nonsense," she said.