CPT Palestine Pictures > CPT Palestine Delegation Pictures
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Dome of the Rock
This is a view of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock, the Holy Sepulchre, and the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer.
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Prayer for peace...
This is the view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. From here, Jesus looked over Jerusalem and wept because they did not know the ways that made for peace. And as you can see, we weep still.
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The Wall
East of the Wailing Wall runs Israel's new wall. You can see that it cuts off people from land. Here in this land, Justice does not flow like streams.
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Children at the wall.
You can see that despite the wall, children try to go about daily life, though their homes are divided from their school, their place of worship and the markets.
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A young friend...
This Palestinian boy was part of the protests against the East Jerusalem home demolitions. His father says he raises him in the way of non-violent resistance, and that is the new generation.
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Home demolition...
This man is a Bedouin Sheikh, who is an Arab Israeli. He has full citizenship, yet the government has relocated the Bedouins from their ancestral territories to ghettos in the Negev desert. And even here, they do not allow them to build permanent homes. Here he stands with his three year old son in front of the demolished home of his older son.
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Shohada Street
This is the closure at Shohada Street next to the CPT apartment. There are 101 street closures in Hebron, separating Palestinians from Israeli settlers, which has forced the Palestinians to loose their shops, generational homes, and forces the children to walk miles to their school, health clinics, and mosque.
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Protection from the settlers
You can see an Israeli soldier standing guard above the Old City Market. He is "protecting" the settlers who live above the Palestinians. However, you can see that the Palestinians have covered the street with fencing because the Israeli settlers are the ones who throw rocks, bricks, chairs and sewage down on the Palestinians.
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Al Arroub checkpoint
This is the military checkpoint near the Al Arroub refugee camp. The Palestinians have been here since 1948, when the Israeli army forcibly displaced them from their home inside what is now Israel.
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Leyla's shop
In the Old City of Hebron, the closure of Shohada Street has decimated the local economy simply because by denying freedom of movement, people can not get to the shops. But the women, such as Leyla are making a difference by empowering women to embroider, and then sell their goods in her shop. Here I am with our Delegation leader, Sally, at Leyla's shop, holding a fukiya I bought for Natalie. On our first night in Hebron, Leyla hosted all of us at her house, cooked us a feast, and shared her family, life, faith and struggles with us. Her son was one of the children, aged 8 at the time, who were arrested in a recent rash of home raids.
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Field trip
This is a class of Israeli children going on a class trip. You can see that their teachers carry automatic rifles. All Israelis can carry weapons. Palestinians may not.
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Class Trip
This is the class of Muslim children who we escorted through the checkpoint to visit the Mosque at Abraham's Tomb
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Getting through the checkpoint
Here is the teacher of the Muslim children having to stop to show her ID. For this reason, she was separated from her class, and we were asked to step in to help her with her children.
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Soldiers in the Suq
Here are two pictures of the incident that I reported in my update. First, the ID check.
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Second picture
Then the detention and the frisking. The soldier closest to me is the one who decided to raise his rifle when he did not want to answer questions.
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The road to Al Bweira
This is the road block by the Israeli settlement. This is the road that the children must walk under threat of harrassment and attack by settlers.
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The road...
This is the road that the Palestinian children must walk to school. The dirt road to the left is the Settlers road to their outpost from which they threaten the children.
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Here are some of the girls that we monitored on their walk home from school in Al Bweira. Even though they walk this way under the threat of razor wire, soldiers in jeeps and harrassment from settlers with stones, can you see the smiles on their faces? Courage. Hope.
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A meal with new friends...
This family lives in the valley of Al Bweira. He is a grape, and goat farmer. His family has lived here for five generations, predating the nation state of Israel. However, the Israeli military has demolished his home twice. You can see that the walls are simply concrete block. They decided that they would not go through the trouble of painting their walls, because they anticipate the military will only demolish their home again. This family hosted us for a meal, tea and beautiful, beautiful fellowship. They have nothing, and yet they gave everything.
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Tank towing...
In the Palestinian town of Bethlehem...their message is clear.
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Oh Little town of Bethlehem...
It is not lying still. This is the view of the hill at the top of which sits the Church of the Nativity and Manger sqaure. Israel's apartheid wall runs between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, dividing this land and its people.
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CPT Delegates
This is my CPT family. I have met with some wonderful friends from all over the world, and we are helping one another walk in the way of peace by following the Prince of Peace.