
Also, today's protest in Bil'in was successful with protestors affixing posters of Ibrahim to the Apartheid Wall. They were able to reach the fence and open the outer gate before being tear gassed. No serious injuries.
RECENT POSTS: Summer 2008 Visit to friends and to witness the current situation in the West Bank. OLDER POSTS: Summer 2007 Film workshops in Palestine. Video workshops for refugee youth ages to tell their own stories through film in 10 day workshops. LAST YEAR'S POSTS (Summer 2006) Visiting Occupied Palestine
While such dire conditions exist in many places in the world - the situation here is striking because of the apartheid like conditions created by the occupation. Nearby Israeli settlements draw water from new wells and are hooked up to the electrical grid while the Israeli military prevents indigenous Palesitnian communites from drilling new wells or building new homes. It amounts to an policy of ethnic cleansing through economic pressure and deprival of the basic necessities of water and shelter. This situation is one of the most naked injustices I've seen in the occupied territories.
For more on the Jordan Valley see: "The Jordan Valley's forgotten Palestinians Ben White," The Electronic Intifada, 30 May 2008
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9573.shtml
For ways to support, see:
Jordan Valley Solidarity: http://www.jordanvalleysolidarity.org/