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7.03.08 “No Smiling at the Terminal”
It seems this is the new rule! I learned that yesterday, on my way back home from work. Its always a hassle to get to Jerusalem from Bethlehem, crossing the terminal is never an easy thing to do, but yesterday it was terrible...
3.03.08 Renewed settler activity between Hebron and Kiryat Arba
Coming over the eastern hill after the Ibrahimi mosque lies the land coveted by the settlers of the adjacent Kiryat Arba settlement. This plot, Wadi al-Hussein, is an unbuilt valley with olive and almond tree plots belonging to...
29.02.08 At-Tuwani villagers reclaim road to Yatta
On my second day in Hebron I, along with my team of fellow (EAPPl) Observers, Niklas from Finland and Erika from Switzerland, was invited by The Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Hebron to accompany them on a demonstration...
18.02.08 Woman against the Wall
Sheerin Alaraj (35) meets me in her village of Al-Walaja situated in the North-West of the Bethlehem district. The village is inside what Israelis call ‘Gush Etzion’ - The Etzion Block. This is an area of Israeli settlements...
4.02.08 Susiya cave dwellers and Bush in the White House
A part of our task in Hebron is to be present in the villages situated on the hills of the Southern Hebron area. In this area, the Palestinians experience harassment from the settlers nearby, their homes are threatened by...
29.01.08 Hebron : Hashem, Harassment and Hope
“The settlers have full control over what happens in our home, that is why there must always be someone here,” Hashem tells me, “if everybody leaves, they will enter our home and destroy everything.” It does not always help: a...
10.01.08 Being an EA in Hebron
The main task for the EAPPI team here in Hebron is to accompany the Palestinian children to and from the Cordoba school every morning and afternoon. The settlers have previously attacked the school several times and the children...
8.01.08 Visit in Shuafat refugee camp
On New Year’s Eve, Dieter and I went to Jerusalem in order to visit Shuafat refugee camp. I had not been there since May and I was really looking forward to going back.
26.10.07 Ma’ale Adumim … closer than you may think!
Fifteen minutes from West Jerusalem – the Jewish and Californian-looking part of the “indivisible city” –, there is a suburb named Ma’ale Adumim. This city is lovely and so colourful with scores of apartment blocks, beautiful...
5.10.07 Grave desecration
Marah al- Baqqar is a small village South of Hebron. On the 31st of July an Ecumenical Accompanier visited the home of Taleb Hasan Amr who at 80yrs of age had witnessed Israeli military destroy the tomb in which is mother and...
