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Twinned with Gaza City: Norway's Tromsø conflicted over Israel-Hamas war | Dispatch

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For the tourists who flock here year-round, the city of Tromsø in northern Norway feels very far from the world's troubles. Perched amid fjords above the rim of the Arctic Circle, it offers Northern Lights tours and husky sledding in winter, and midnight sun and whale watching in summer.

Yet as visitors tour its cosy streets, full of stylish Nordic restaurants, the city likes to remind people that in lands far away, there is war and injustice. On a snowbound bridge on the edge of town, a "Solidarity with Palestine" banner hangs, while last month, the Palestinian flag flew outside city hall .

Here at 69° North, though, support for Palestine goes well beyond more gesture politics. Since 2001, Tromsø has been twinned with Gaza City, and last year, Tromsø's mayor, Gunnar Wilhelmsen, hosted his Hamas-appointed opposite number in his parlour at city hall.

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