Images

The following photosets were taken in October 2008:

BALATA REFUGEE CAMP - NABLUS, WEST BANK

We have a toured a number of refugee camps along the separation barrier and throughout the West Bank over past months. Perhaps the most sobering was our visit to Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus yesterday where over 26,000 people live in less than one square kilometer.

A photojourney (with captions and explanations) has been created. Please click below to learn more:

The following photosets were taken in April 2008 during a journey through Israel’s Occupied West Bank.

HEBRON - WEST BANK

This photoset was taken in the West Bank town of Hebron on Thursday, 17th April 2008. Words cannot do justice to the situation and the ‘facts on the ground’ for the over 150,000 Palestinians living under total military occupation and under constant assault and abuse by the 400 hardline settlers who have taken over every aspect of their lives.

In these cases, perhaps only photos - and a few words - can help convey the tense, volatile, and wholly appaling situation in Hebron.

The photoset is arranged with captions and should be viewed in a chronological order.

THE WALL - WEST BANK

This photoset was taken across various points along the West Bank border on Wednesday, 16th April 2008. Accompanying Abu Hasan (a Palestinian Guide and articulate activist for Palestinian rights) through refugee camps, decimated villages, and checkpoint after checkpoint - the shocking effects of Israel’s ’separation barrier’ comes into clear view.

In almost 90% of cases, the ’security fence’ does not separate Israeli from Palestinian (as has been purported by the Israeli government) but in fact succeeds in separating Palestinian from Palestinian - ripping many towns in half, illegally appropriating Palestinian land, and turning a large number of the West Bank border towns into filthy ghettos.

The only way to describe this - is to see this for yourself. Hopefully these photos can help tell the story: