For many Palestinian children their childhood is lived under a cloak of fear, and the threat of violence and abuse at the hands of an armed force that stalks the streets of their homeland....
Author: Graham Peebles
Graham Peebles is an independent writer and charity worker. His essays are widely published on leading alternative media throughout the world. Formerly a photographer and fine artist he set up The Create Trust in 2005, and has run education projects in India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Ethiopia where he lived for two years working with street children and under 18 commercial sex workers.
He lives and works in London.
Homes Destroyed, Land stolen, Lives Shattered: Criminal Demolition in the OPT’s
Within the catalogue of criminality that is Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the destruction of Palestinian homes must rank as one of the most cynical and heinous. "Some 90,000 people are currently reported to be at risk of displacement as a result of Israeli policies such as restrictive and discriminatory planning, the revocation of residency rights, the expansion of settlements and the construction of the West Bank Separation Wall"...
Unsettled, Unlawful, Unresolved: Israeli Settlers in a Foreign Land
Violence, abuse, non-accountability, hate, such is communal living today within the occupied West Bank, where some 518,974 colonisers[1] sit within “200”[2] illegal settlements. Noam Chomsky, “The settlements cover over 42% of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), not counting the Jordon valley, which they are taking over”...
West Bank Diary 2009
In July 2009 I went to the Middle East to run a series of creative education workshops, with Palestinian children in the West Bank, and informal, discussion-based training sessions with local staff. There were various aims of the work with the children; To build self-confidence and self-belief and to provide a means of expression – to give the children a voice...
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