Startups on the rise despite tall order in Palestine

At first glance, Mashvisor is just one of thousands of websites specializing in United States real estate.

But it has a unique feature, undetectable to customers: its designers created it in the West Bank and it is run from the Israel-occupied Palestinian territory.

"The great thing about a startup is you can work on it anywhere in the world. You can be in Palestine, you can be in Cambodia, Vietnam, China. It doesn't matter," explains Peter Abu al-Zolof, who co-founded Mashvisor more than a year ago.