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Ramallah, January 2006. Photo by: Shabtai Gold.
Palestinian flag on the left, Iraqi on the right.
"They are treating human beings like Arabs here"- MK Dr. Arieh Eldad, 1 February 2006, refering to how the Israeli military evacuated an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. A racist statement from a member of the Israeli National Union Party- a fascist party. They have about 8 seats in the Israeli Knesset (out of 120). Unrelated to the picture- but it just amazed me, that someone would say something so racist to the press. It seems there are "human beings" and then there are Arabs.
More news about the evacuation:
Palestinian peacemaker Zoughbi Zoughbi says the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is not only physical, but psychological. Gun wielding soldiers, dividing walls, and checkpoints not only adorn the physical landscape - they adorn the emotional landscape within people's soul. Trauma is endemic.
To illustrate his point, Zoughbi tells the true story of a young Palestinian child.
Midnight is just past, winter rain patters on the windows. The child cannot sleep. He wanders through to his parents' bedroom, wakes them up.
'Mum! Dad! Where are my marbles?'
They are confused, annoyed at being woken up. The haze of sleep still lingers on their eyes.
His father speaks. 'Why do you want your marbles? It's late, dark and raining outside. You'd have nowhere to play. Go back to sleep and we'll find them in the morning.'
'I want them now,' the child replies. He is insistent. Fully awake now, and seeing that their child is distressed, the parents get up, find some marbles in corners and hidey holes around the house.
'Here,' they say. 'Your marbles.' They expect a smile, a thank you.
'Put them in the toilet?,' the child says.
Confusion again. What game is this silly child playing? He is almost in tears. 'Is everything okay?,' the mother asks.
The child confesses his fears.
Earlier that week the child had been playing on the street. His friend across the street was playing marbles. Soldiers came and accused his friend of firing the marbles at them from a slingshot. His friend's older brothers were arrested, put in jail. His parent's house was demolished by Israeli bulldozers. All because of playing marbles in the street.
'Mum, Dad,' the child says, 'I'm scared. I love you. I don't want this to happen to us.'
They calm their child down, put him to bed, assure him that it won't happen to them. In the morning, he decides to keep his marbles.
Deep down, the parents can never know. They abide by the rules of the occupation, are careful not to upset soldiers, believe they are cautious enough to have stayed off the Israeli blacklist.
Yet always the fear, the unknowing, the sense of powerlessness. And now - to their horror - it has invaded their children.
Palestinian refugee Shama Houssain rests in her room on a trash station where her family work and live in the village of Gazira Fadel, a village founded by Palestinian refugees fleeing to Egypt during the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, in Sharkia Governorate, Egyptian Nile Delta, on June 17, 2015.
A Hamas fighter takes position inside a scanning machine in the customs hall of the Rafah crossing border, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, after they captured it, June 15, 2007. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
This photo? From one year ago in a protest in Jerusalem in Sheikh Jarrah.
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Palestinians demonstrating in the city of Jaffa in support of Palestinians prisoners on hunger strikes in Israeli detention facilities.
This type of scarf is considered as a national symbol for Palestinians.
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A vigil in Ramallah for the families of the Palestinians who were killed by the bullets of the occupation; To demand the recovery of the bodies of their detained children.
More faces turning out to support the cause to stop the violence happening in the Middle East . Demonstration in front of the Treasury casino
Reddacliff Square
Brisbane
A Czeczen man (also refugee) had joined the group. Boxe training in the palestinian camp of Zarka, August 2009.
A Palestinian boy stands against a brick wall and a green doorway in the Palestinian city of Hebron on August 13, 2005.
I remember the palestinians of Zarka (June, 2009)
I remember that we joked together. I told him he was a king on his throne, he answered me : "a King in exile" and laughed. I smiled to him, the kindest way I could.
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A Palestinian youth runs with a national flag past burning tyres during clashes at the Kalandia checkpoint en route to the West Bank city of Ramallah 09 February 2007 which followed protests against Israeli work at the entrances of Islam's third holiest shrine, Al-Aqsa mosques compound in Jerusalem.