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Ecumenical Accompanier's reports
7.01.09 Maybe in 20 years
A few weeks ago the whole world was shocked by the violence in the Wadi al-Hussein valley following the forced evacuation of settlers from the occupied Rajabi house on December 4th 2008. Now the world has moved on to be shocked...
7.01.09 The effects of the war on Gaza in Jayyous
Since 27 December 2008, when Israel launched its air attacks on Gaza, days have been filled with reports of increasing number of deaths and as I write the current number of fatalities stands at 550 Palestinians. The press have...
7.01.09 Eight days in the life of Hamam Mohsem
He was on a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit – a sixteen-year-old boy who only yesterday was revising for a school examination. Now he lay motionless and heavily sedated, his head and face swathed in bandages.
17.12.08 Living with settlers in the West Bank
The decision to evict settlers from the house they had occupied illegally in Hebron is having an impact throughout the country. The settlers are so angry that they are causing damage and disruption everywhere, including the...
17.12.08 Home, Sweet Home? The Um Kamel Protest Tent
The plight of the Al Kurd family has become something of a 'cause celebre' here. After their eviction on Sunday 9th November, Mrs. Al Kurd and some of her family moved into a large tent about 50 metres from their old home, in one...
9.12.08 The hospital bus
Every day, the Augusta Victoria hospital in Jerusalem receives buses with patients from the West Bank. They come to get cancer treatment or to get dialysis for kidney failures. Most of the patients come from Hebron or Bethlehem...
9.12.08 Neighbours in Hebron
The night between December 5th and December 6th one of the houses in the old city, next to the settlement Avraham Avinu, got the top floor burnt out. We went there in the morning to see what had happened and to document the...
3.12.08 Powerful impacts in Yanoun
Suddenly, it seems, I'm in a different part of the world, sharing my time and days with people living under conditions and circumstances so far away from my own everyday life. For three months I will be staying in the West Bank,...
3.12.08 Where should they go? House demolition in Al 'Isawiya.
18 November 2008, was a very sad and unforgettable day for Jamal Abu Sneineh's family after their home was bulldozed in Al 'Isawiya next to Hebrew University in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian family bought the house and resided...
8.11.08 Is it a military manoeuvre? No, it's olive harvest in Yanoun.
A Landrover from the Israeli military District Coordination Office, the DCO, comes into the village of Yanoun. Three armed officers climb out of the car and look down the valley. They are pointing and giving directions and...
