Eye witnesses:
Ecumenical Accompanier's reports
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Permanent Impermanence in Izbat At Tabib
The Mayor of Izbat At Tabib is proud of his achievements. But his whole village, from the largest house to the bus stop, could soon be demolished.
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Daily humiliation at Checkpoint 300
Khalid Muhammed works in East Jerusalem, less than 20km from home. But every day he faces the ordeal of Checkpoint 300, a vast terminal in the concrete wall around Bethlehem.
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Harrassed into poverty
If you drive into Hebron from the north, you enter a large, hilly expanse of white stone buildings. It bustles with activity and people at work. But at Bab Al-Zawiye all this ends.
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A scene out of Dante
Qalandiya checkpoint, the main northern entrance to Jerusalem for Palestinians from the West Bank, is a tense and dangerous place at the best of times. On Fridays in the holy month of Ramadan, it turns into a scene out of Dante...
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Lord, I will lift mine eyes to the hills...
For the past four months, I have been living in Yanoun, a little village outside of Nablus, a large Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. Yanoun is surrounded by outposts belonging to the illegal Israeli Settlement of...
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Double Standards
We stood, struggling to keep our candles alight on this breezy, summer evening in Jerusalem. The lights of police cars flashed from all directions; there was a hub of voices offering sympathy to the homeless families; the flashes...
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They should not be here...
When I arrived at the spring in Khirbet Tana, a small village in the northern West Bank, I suddenly saw a blue jeep coming from the southeast hills. It was followed by four other rugged vehicles. The vehicles halted for a few...
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Tenants' Rights in East Jerusalem?
The small bulldozer worked very carefully. There was no wanton destruction this time. It maneuvered carefully around the mature tree in the tiny garden to clear the rubbish, demolish a small section of wall the Israeli setters...
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The price tag
No doubt the summer sales are in full swing with everyone looking for bargains. The "festival of shopping" in Nablus is also drawing the crowds. Not that the people of Yanoun, just 12 kms away, are very excited about the Nablus...
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The Other Voice and Parents Circle provide hope for many
Nomika Zion lives in Sderot. She came to live in the town 22 years ago as a member of an urban kibbutz. The name Sderot will be familiar to those who followed the war on Gaza at the beginning of this year: it is the town which...
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