| here are some pictures/comments by john heaney. they were taken in early 2003 | |
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A boy in Balata Refugee Camp pointing to a poster of a martyr as we pulled into the camp |
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The ruins of the the PA HQ that had a tank shell fired into it every morning as a wake up call for the city |
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The ruins of the prison, destroyed by the army in April 2002 |
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Local palestinian men trying to move a boulder which made up the roadblock...they got it moved |
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The roadblock finally open to the people again |
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Palestinian boys try to prevent the army from driving down a street where 3 boys had been shot earlier that day |
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Smoke in the distance...the street the clashes took place on |
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Abu Samih Bata, father of the house we stayed |
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Abu Samih's grandchildren |
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Abu Samih's wife |
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A ten-year-old boy we met on the road one day shows us a bullet wound in his shoulder and face, he had been shot by the army in a street clash |
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Some of the children of the 2nd house (the Khilfe family) we stayed in, and also 2 friends of Baroq, the martyr |
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More children in the Khilfe house, who sat in front of us, staring & talking Arabic for about 6 hours |
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The children of Askar Refugee Camp |
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The children of Askar Refugee Camp |
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5.00am, The city of Nablus
& sunrise, as the Koran is echoed around the city |
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"The dirt tracks and mountain roads that we are forced to drive on...this was a nice part of the road |
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At the road demonstration, where local Palestinians are demonstrating against the 'Apartheid' Wall that's being built on the border of The Occupied Territories and Israel. The reason for the demonstation is because the wall is being built further inside The Occupied Territories than it should be, and also because the farmers now can't get from one side of their land to the other while the wall is being built. We are there to demonstrate, to be in solidarity with the Palestinians and to protect the Palestinians from the army |
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The brown strip of the path of the future wall can be seen splitting farms in 2 |
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The Palestinians speak with the commander of the army to try to let them continue farming their land while the wall is being built, he makes an easy promise, but we think it is more to diffuse the demonstration rather than give the Palestinians what they want |
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At one of the checkpoints around the city of Nablus. Palestinian men, women and children being detained and not allowed pass either way...people who include students going to university, doctors trying to go to work and mothers with children trying to go home after being in the city buying supplies |
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With the checkpoint closed for the last 3 hours, another volunteer and I try to persuade the soldiers to let people through, or at least give a reason for closing the checkpoint, or give a time when it will be open again. They ignore us, threaten us with arrest, and tell us we're meddling in business that doesn't concern us |
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At one of the checkpoints around the city of Nablus. Palestinian men, women and children being detained and not allowed pass either way...people who include students going to university, doctors trying to go to work and mothers with children trying to go home after being in the city buying supplies |
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One of the Israeli tanks moving through the checkpoint. While we stood here, there were constant gunshots from about 50 yards away from the checkpoint, they were having target practice against one of the cliffs |
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Men being detained by the soldiers at a Azmud checkpoint...in the distance you can see the village they are trying to get to...they were detained for 6 hours for 'security checks' and then released just as the soldiers were going off duty with no security problems at all |
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Our demonstration at the occupied house, with the soldiers watching us. The family now can only be in the ground floor, with the army taking over the rest of the house as a military base/detention centre/watch tower |
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the children of a primary school in Nablus take part in a peaceful demonstration for their right to education |
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the children of a primary school in Nablus take part in a peaceful demonstration for their right to education |