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Ecumenical Accompanier's reports

 

 

22.12.06 Silent Night

A dozen Palestinian men are lying on the ground by a metal gate on the outskirts of Bethlehem. It is 3:07 am on a clear, chilly night. To keep warm, the men have covered the asphalt with cardboard.

Category: General

22.12.06 Two Worlds and a Huge Wall

I’m sitting on the terrace of the Augusta Victoria Hospital compound on the Mount of Olives with pine trees at my back overlooked by a spectacular full moon in a clear sky. It is 6 a.m. on a ‘warm’ December morning and in front...

Category: Personal reflections

22.12.06 On Harvesting

We leave Tulkarem before six, as Rabbi Achermann has asked us to get to Huwwarra checkpoint before seven thirty. Huge nimbus clouds tower across the light-blue morning sky as we zoom off in a sleepy Mercedes. The diesel engine...

Category: Personal reflections

9.10.06 10080 minutes in paradise

If your wonder years were during the seventies, you would remember Mike Batt of Tubular Bells fame. One of his less popular songs was ‘The Ride to Agadir’ which stirred my imagination and evoked images of battles in the desert...

Category: Personal reflections

1.10.06 A Day in the Life of an Ecumenical Accompanier

The account of a typical day of an EA working in Behtlehem.


29.09.06 A retreat in Taybeh, a Beerfest and a walk in the dark

It's Saturday 16th September, around five in the afternoon. I am on my way, along with one of my Bethlehem team mates, to Taybeh - a village close to Ramallah - for a retreat and a visit to the famous Taybeh beer festival.

Category: Personal reflections

21.09.06 A bus driver out of the ordinary

A bus driver who is loved by his passengers and who gives them fruit andsweets each day is not all that common. Then again, these passengers are not just anybody.

Category: Personal reflections

15.09.06 Stolen Trees and Broken Hearts

“They steal my trees, my land, my everything!” a woman shouts with a desperate voice. Her name is Grace Napoleon Abu Mohor and she owns 18 dunums of land to cultivate olive trees in Beit Jala outside of Bethlehem. Or rather she...

Category: First-hand information

15.09.06 Humiliation at Huwwara

Last week, while I was providing cover for one of my colleagues in the Yanoun placement, I experienced the infamous checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Nablus; Huwwara.

 

Unlike other checkpoints I have experienced in the...

Category: First-hand information

1.09.06 I did not vanish

The history of Jewish Hebron Revisited

 

It is a warm sunny day, as I take the bus from Tel Aviv towards the small Israeli town of Kfar Saba. The journey takes about one hour. Kilometres away from the West Bank city of Hebron, I...

Category: First-hand information

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