The Eastern sector was depressing to behold.
The Western sector has 6 legitimate playhouses, the Eastern sector five.
But the international community, including the US, does not recognise Israel's annexation of the eastern sector of the city.
As a provisional solution until an anticipated reunification with the eastern sector, the capital was located in the small university town of Bonn.
Cacao cultivation has been introduced in the west, through which traditional trade routes lead to the Atlantic; vegetable cultivation is stressed in the eastern sector.
The eastern sector (known before 1966 as Léo-Est), of which the wide Boulevard du 30-Juin forms the main artery, is a major commercial area.
"Berlin is a pile of rubble next to Potsdam," was how Brecht found it when he returned to live in the eastern sector in 1947.
Since 2012, Aleppo has been divided between the western sector, controlled by the government, and the eastern sector, controlled by various opposition militias.
However,, Jerusalem authorities are set to approve thousands of new housing units in the eastern sector of the city this week, despite the resolution.
They said very heavy guerrilla fire was also being directed at the area, in the eastern sector of the border strip that Israel occupies in southern Lebanon.
Israeli planes also struck suspected guerrilla hideouts in the eastern sector of the occupied zone before dawn and then shelled the region, security officials said.
