Palestinian twins turn Boeing 707 into restaurant

Its enterprising owners, 60-year-old twin brothers Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi, expect to welcome their first customers within weeks at the site in an isolated mountain area near Nablus.

Inside the old jet's cabin, the seats have been stripped out and the window panes removed. Tables will soon be fitted in the fuselage, which has been painted white with laminate wooden floors.

The brothers plan to call their aviation-themed eatery -- which is decorated with Palestinian and Jordanian flags -- "the Palestinian-Jordanian Airline Restaurant and Coffee Shop Al-Sairafi Nablus".

"The cockpit will be a suitable place for any newlyweds who come to us for their wedding ceremony."

Ata said he and his brother were working as scrap metal traders two decades ago when he learned about a 1980s-era passenger plane sitting near Kiryat Shmona in the northern of occupied territories.