Journals

by: Feras SSA Allenby Bridge a strange and unknown name for a lot of people around the world but for Palestinians it is a well known name. It is the name of the bridge which connects the West Bank with ...

Gaza today -lawless embargo , sanctions and occupation by Dr. Mona El-Farra, 23 May 2007 A few days ago, a ceasefire has been signed again between the two Palestinian fighting parties, Fatah and Hamas. And children are back at school. ...

In this story, Hope may just be the name of someone I served coffee to in Pennsylvania by Jesus Martinez, 21 May 2007 We start this tale on Friday, May 18th in Bethlehem, and end up back in Bethlehem on ...

by: Yifat Appelbaum this is an infographic Today I feel frustrated. I sat in a cute little apricot orchard in a village near Beit Lahem as the army watched us through binoculars from the hill, a menacing bulldozer in the ...

by Anna Baltzer, 15 May 2007 Palestinian performers depict typical scenes of interrogation, abuse, and torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centers. A few weeks ago I attended an event commemorating Palestinian Prisoner’s Day at Al Far’a Refugee ...

by: Yifat Appelbaum Firas used to live in the old city of Hebron until 1 year ago when he and his whole family left as a result of the settler and soldier violence. He asked me to go with him ...

by: -bat. I know a number of people have started reading my journal in order to read the Palestine stuff. Thank you for reading, and I am flattered by the attention, but you are kind of in the wrong place. ...

Israeli military using Palestinian population for war games scenario by Malaka 2, 10 May 2007 Beit Leed is a Palestinian village located between the cities of Nablus and Tulkarm. It is a village completely isolated. Whether you are coming from ...

by: -bat. Katie and I head out of Hebron in a service taxi, one of the large ones this time, and retrace the route I had taken the night before. It had been dark when I arrived, but now it ...

by Anna Baltzer, 5 May 2007 Five years ago, nine-month-old Mohammed and his grandmother were in their West Bank home when it began to fill with nerve gas from a nearby Israeli Occupation Forces military base. The Army had moved ...