Eye witnesses:
Ecumenical Accompanier's reports
11.05.09 Young man shot in Madama
On the 27th of April, we read in the news about a man who had been shot in Madama, a village south of Nablus between the villages Asira and Burin. When we went in search of the man just two days after the shooting, there was no...
11.05.09 Piece by piece the land is being stolen
Earlier this week we learnt about an illegal outpost that had been erected approximately one and a half months ago in the Al-Buera area on a portion of the Jaber family's land and within 200 metres of their house. The Kharsina...
11.05.09 Breakfast in the 'seam zone'
We made it through the agricultural gate into the Seam Zone to see for ourselves exactly which lands Jayyous has lost and which land is merely "isolated" and can still be accessed by the agricultural gates - sometimes. It was...
11.05.09 Living beside a settlement in Wadi al-Hussein
This week the Hebron team made it a priority to visit the Da'ana family in Wadi al-Hussein, just outside Hebron city. We soon discovered what it was like for an isolated Palestinian family to be located beside a settlement. While...
11.05.09 Adult learning and teaching in Tulkarem
Here in Tulkarem, we run three English conversation groups a week: one with women in the refugee camp, a second with other women in the village of Shufa, and a third with students at the university. At the same time, we try to...
11.05.09 Checkpoint morning blues
It is 8 am in the morning and I have been up for four hours. I have only had a few hours sleep and I am exhausted. But I need to write right down what I've seen. I can't sleep anyway. An important task for us here in Bethlehem is...
11.05.09 Unheard stories and the Pope's visit
Within a few hundred metres of where the Pope will address the crowd on May 13th at Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem live two very different Palestinian families affected in different ways by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
8.05.09 Independence day in the seam zone
Some Israelis came into the seam zone to help Palestinian farmer Abu Azzam with his loquat harvest last week – they couldn't stand being in Tel Aviv when celebrations took place for Independence Day.
8.05.09 "The bulldozers came in the morning when the children were sleeping"
When Siham woke up and looked out the window, she saw that the house was surrounded by Israeli soldiers and bulldozers. In vain she asked the soldiers to wait a few minutes so that she could put some clothes on her children. The...
8.05.09 Reflections on Qalandiya
Having processed through a number of military checkpoints since my arrival I approached Qalandiya with little concern, resolved as I was to display nothing but the quiet dignity which befits my advancing years. However, sad to...
