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The paper called for investigation of the environmental or genetic etiologies of this cluster in an otherwise unremarkable rural area.\n                    <jats:sup>1<\/jats:sup>\n                    Our research in these same villages shows them to be the center of an extensive informal electronic and electrical waste (e\u2010waste) dismantling industry in Palestine, operating for almost two decades. This entails extensive open\u2010burning of e\u2010waste components to extract valuable metals or dispose of nonvaluable waste, releasing high concentrations of hazardous contaminants, which may be an important factor in the elevated cancer incidence. We offer a first step in assessing this link. We applied a novel multitemporal object\u2010based method to map the prevalence and intensity of e\u2010waste burn sites in the entire Hebron Governorate (1,060 km\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    ) between 1999 and 2007. 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