article_snippet: More than 3,000 runners came to the West Bank for the Palestine Marathon on Friday.
article_snippet: Two weeks before the Palestine Marathon, more than 25,000 runners took part in the Palestine Marathon.
article_snippet: The course took runners through old and new Jerusalem.
article_snippet: the Palestine Marathon is put on by the Palestine Olympic Committee and the Right to Movement, a nonprofit organization that uses running as a means of activism.
article_snippet: the Palestine Olympic Committee and the Right to Movement, a nonprofit organization that uses running as a means of activism focus the Palestine Olympic Committee and the Right to Movement, a nonprofit organization that uses running as a means of activism efforts on what the Palestine Olympic Committee and the Right to Movement, a nonprofit organization that uses running as a means of activism see as one of the most basic rights: movement.
article_snippet: Many of the runners are Palestinian, and the runners movement is limited, Israel says, for security reasons.
article_snippet: The marathon course took runners along the West Bank separation barrier, into the Aida refugee camp, and under guard towers.
article_snippet: In its third year, the Palestine Marathon drew runners from all over the world, pilgrims of a sort making a journey to the holy land, not for religion, but for sport.
highlights_snippet: More than 3,000 runners came to the West Bank .
  