Eye witnesses:
Ecumenical Accompanier's reports
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An encounter with a child prisoner
A TEENAGER tells me how he's hoping to study journalism when he graduates from secondary school next year. But his chances have not been improved by a three-month prison sentence imposed on him this year. Until recently he was...
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The emotional memory of the Nakba lives on in Aida's children
During his recent visit to the Holy Land, on May 13th Pope Benedict XVI visited Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. The camp was established in 1950 following the 'Nakba' (catastrophe/disaster) of 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians fled...
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Settler violence is on the rise in the West Bank: The story of the Azzeh family
Settler violence in the West Bank is on the rise. In the first eight months of 2008 UN OCHA recorded "290 settler-related incidents targeting Palestinians and their property." When compared to the figures of the previous two...
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Squeezed and punished by the Israeli occupation
Salwa (17), Seham (37) and Zenab (73) are three generations of women of the Palestinian Salah family who live in Al-Khader, a town of 10,000 people in the Governorate of Bethlehem. Like many families in the West Bank they have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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