Tag: Bethlehem

  • Israeli soldiers opened fire on a small group of children in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp

    by Kristin Ess Just over an hour ago Israeli soldiers opened fire on a small group of children in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp. The Israeli occupying army entered the camp, as they do most days and nights, in jeeps,with their tanks rumbling on the side roads. The Israeli soldiers were throwing tear gas into the…

  • Letter from Dheishe Refugee Camp

    Hi Folks, In the past week since I left, it’s been hard to sit down and put together some thoughts, since new experiences keep happening. Here are a few. The volunteers for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who showed up in Jerusalem last weekend were guided to Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, for a day of…

  • Two Days in Bethlehem

    by Chris and Carl Our affinity group members, Mike, Ronise (who is deaf) and Jennie went to the Deaf School in Bethlehem. The school serves boys and girls from 6 months to 15 years old. It was a well equipped modern school run by the Catholic Church. The school is currently closed because of the…

  • The smell of death

    by Bob of the New York Solidarity Delegation It is Friday. I am writing from inside the Deheisha refugee camp. My body is sore – less from the sun or the walking, or the lack of water but from holding this truth that I see and feel and hear. It smells here. If you were…