Relabelled “Time Out Ramallah,” the Nov. 1 edition displays the ominous separation barrier on its cover emblazoned with the question: “What happens behind this wall?”

The special edition features a piece on where hipsters hang out in Ramallah and a female D.J. who has performed all over the Middle East but rarely in Israel because of military checkpoints. It also tells the story of two Palestinians who cooked for hundreds of inmates while imprisoned for nearly a decade in an Israeli jail and then fulfilled their lifelong dream of opening a food truck business. Then there is one on a Palestinian rock group whose lead singer lives in Jerusalem while the other members live in the West Bank and the obstacles the band faces.

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Since Israelis and Palestinians signed the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the governance of Palestinian cities was handed over to the Palestinian Authority, interaction between ordinary people on both sides has been limited. The bloody years of the second intifada a decade later restricted that interaction even further, especially after Israel started building a separation barrier between the two territories.

Today, most young Palestinians only ever meet Israelis as settlers or soldiers at military checkpoints, while Israelis see only Palestinian laborers who come to work mostly manual jobs in Israel. Last summer marked 50 years since Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

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“Young people in Tel Aviv never have the chance to meet young Palestinians,” said the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Nof Nathansohn. “The only things they know about Palestinians is what Israeli journalists present to them and that focuses mostly on conflict and violence.”

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“We wanted to showcase that there are people on the Palestinian side who are exactly like us,” she said.

Around 70,000 copies of the special bi-lingual edition were published in Israel on Thursday. Each story in the special edition is printed in Hebrew and Arabic. On Monday, a few thousand copies of the magazine in English will be distributed in the West Bank.

“It is very important for us to share our stories with the other side, even before we share it with the whole world,” said Ohood Ahmad, a Palestinian blogger who helped coordinate the project in the West Bank and Gaza. “My experience is that many or most Israelis have no idea how our life is. They do not even think the occupation exists, they know nothing about our suffering at all.”

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Ahmad said that it was a challenge persuading Palestinians to write for an Israeli publication. Any kind of work with Israelis is seen by Palestinians as normalization, or accepting the situation.

“It makes you guilty of being a traitor,” she said. “But I see it in a different way, we need to share our reality with Israelis after 50 years of occupation; there is nothing that makes this situation normal, it will never be normal.”

One of the articles featured in the edition comes from Gaza. It sheds light on the reality faced by young Gazans living in a place with only a few hours of electricity each day.

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Since the Islamist militant group Hamas took over the coastal enclave more than a decade ago, Israel has imposed a land, sea and air blockade of the strip. Egypt also restricts exit and entry into Gaza.

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The political deadlock has caused growing fuel shortages, which has been exacerbated in recent months by a dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, so that now there is only a few hours of electricity each day. A reconciliation pact reached last month between Hamas and Fatah, the Palestinian faction that heads the Palestinian Authority, looks likely to remedy that.

Written by Huda Abdelrahman, the Time Out piece highlights eight points Gazans need to know in order to conduct a social life despite the electricity shortages.

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“A funny, yet practical means of adapting has developed under these circumstances,” Abdelrahman writes. “Visiting friends and relatives became dependent on the question of ‘when do you have electricity?’ Rather than ‘when can you welcome us?’ If we find out our friends are on the same timetable as we are, there is no point in visiting them.”

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“Most Israelis know there is an electricity shortage in Gaza but I am not sure that such detail has ever been shared in the Israeli media before,” Nathanson said.

Nathanson said that despite receiving some negative feedback from Time Out Tel Aviv readers upset that the magazine featured Palestinian life, the response has been mostly positive.