This week we pray for

Thursday
Dec292011

A short video - the long walk home for children in Al Bweira

CPT Hebron has just released this short video that captures some of the sights of this long walk home from school. I hope these images help you visualize the place and some of the blessed children.

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Tuesday
Nov292011

CPT Update: The walk to school and the normalization of violence

On a morning like this, 'uneventful' means the children were all allowed to pass to school under the muzzle of a gun with only one boy detained and bag searched. I know that this has become normal, but for me, every morning, that was indeed a significant event.

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Tuesday
Nov292011

CPT Update: Israel displacing the Bedouin Arab children from land and schools

Below is a release from one of our team on the situation regarding the ongoing displacement of Bedouin Arab Israelis from their land, and the impact it is having on their chldren.

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Tuesday
Nov292011

CPT Update: The demolition of Um Fugarah and arrests

...there, on that hill in the wilderness, we drank tea. We sat with the elders in quiet grief. Then we did the only thing that we could do. We picked up picks and shovels and helped them dig the footings to their new mosque. Since the writing of the press release, we have learned the location of the prison to which the girls were taken. Team members will be visiting tonight to advocate for their return.

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Tuesday
Nov292011

CPT Update: 15 November, Freedom Riders take Israeli settler bus to Jerusalem

On Tuesday, 15 November 2011, six Palestinians stood at the bus stop outside the settlements of Psagot and Migron, and boarded a bus used by settlers to travel to Jerusalem. When CPT’s Hebron team heard about the action on the internet, they sent three members to accompany the six Freedom Riders, as the activists referred to themselves.

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