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In Masafer Yatta, Teachers Like Me Can’t Guarantee Our Students an Education

– by Awdah Hathaleen – 15/11/2022 Last week on November, 23rd occupation forces demolished a primary school in the village of Isfey in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Members of Green Olive have close relationships in the region, including with the author of this article about the ways occupation impedes education there. We […]

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South Hebron Hills

The tiny villages of the Masafer Yatta region in the South Hebron Hills are only an hour’s drive from Jerusalem or an hour and a half from Tel Aviv, but traveling here one seems to be going back in time. Here, at the edge of the desert, farmers eek out a meager living growing barley […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ A Night in Wadi Hummus  – by Faryn Borella, USA – We awaken at three in the morning to a loud knock on the doorTwenty bodies rise simultaneously from the prostration of sleepless sleepSpringing forward at the hips like cogsTo sit […]

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Housing demolitions

Housing demolitions are sadly a regular part of life to be contended with in East Jerusalem. But recently there have been some disturbing developments in an already disturbing field. This week at least 10 buildings (some reports say as many as 16) were demolished in in the Wadi Hummus area of Sur Baher, just to […]

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