The school they didn’t want us to build

School 2Just over a year ago in April 2007 a delegation from Brighton visited Upper Fasayil in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, Palestine. They sat down with the villagers and planned to build a school, knowing that the the villagers were prohibited from doing any building, improvements or repairs by the Israeli Civil Military Administration*.

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Precious

PreciousWoman and her grandchild, in a small Bedouin tent in occupied Palestine. The soldiers from the nearby Israeli settlement use the crop fields around these tents for live-fire exercises. I spoke to a woman in the next tent who had been shot in the head by a rifle bullet while picking herbs in the middle of the day. She had survived with fifteen stitches. I asked the woman pictured if she or her family had had a similar experience.

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