Palestinians-US aid: a half-built school caught in the middle The West Bank village of Al-Jabaa close to Bethlehem received a USAID grant last year to expand its school, partly to increase the space for girls to study. Construction began late last year but will now halt, with only about a quarter of the work done and the entire school unusable after the Palestinian Authority announced it will refuse all US government aid for fear of lawsuits over alleged support for terrorism. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES