Author Archives: kateinpalestine

Jayyus skatepark

Posted on April 2, 2020 by kateinpalestine

On the Today Programme on Wednesday 1st April 2020 there was an item about 10 year-old Roxana Howlett from Exeter who had just won the Virtual National Skateboard Championship using ramps in her back garden. The event was moved online … Continue reading →

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We refuse to be enemies – Tent of Nations

Posted on December 31, 2019 by kateinpalestine

The direct road to the Tent of Nations was blocked by Israeli settlers about 10 years ago.  It seems symbolic. The taxi from Bethlehem took my friend Alison and me along the winding hilly roads and through a small Palestinian … Continue reading →

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Clearing Palestinians off their land – Yanoun 2019

Posted on November 25, 2019 by kateinpalestine

The logic is very simple.  And effective. If you want to evict a people and take their land, first you make living there stressful and difficult.  You have to make sure that they are afraid, denied freedom of movement and … Continue reading →

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Yanoun – the destruction of a Palestinian village in calculated stages – why settlements are an obstacle to peace

Posted on January 18, 2019 by kateinpalestine

Yanoun lies embedded in the hillside overlooking a beautiful valley in the heart of the Palestinian West Bank. Upper Yanoun is at the head of the valley and Lower Yanoun below. A single road joins the two. For generations, Yanoun … Continue reading →

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Khan al Ahmar 2018

Posted on November 11, 2018 by kateinpalestine

Khan al Ahmar will be evicted very soon, I shall not tell you when. We are preparing for it – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister In May this year, the village of Khan al Ahmar was slated for demolition[1] by the … Continue reading →

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Changing the demography of Occupied East Jerusalem

Posted on December 3, 2016 by kateinpalestine

 “All measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and that Israel’s policies … Continue reading →

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Rules of the Occupation – a rigged game

Posted on November 26, 2016 by kateinpalestine

Hekmat’s land is on the outskirts of Kafr Qaduum near the gate by the illegal Israeli settlement of Qedumim [1].  We had come to help with his olive harvest because the family is very poor. Hekmat and his wife, Tamam are … Continue reading →

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Silent occupation, land grab and the myth of the ‘security’ fence

Posted on November 14, 2016 by kateinpalestine

Jayyus, is a West Bank village six kilometres east of the Green Line, the 1948 internationally recognised Israeli border with Occupied Palestine. In 2002, the illegal Israeli settlement of Zufin[1], occupying some of the village’s most fertile land was illegally … Continue reading →

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Al-Khalayleh – the village that became a prison

Posted on February 12, 2016 by kateinpalestine

Abu Jafar led us to a large tent, the community centre for the village. Al Khalayleh is situated in the ‘Seam Zone’ north east of Jerusalem, the area caught between the Israeli separation barrier, which in places has encroached onto Palestinian land, and … Continue reading →

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Al Aqsa – what’s all the fuss about

Posted on February 12, 2016 by kateinpalestine

The Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount 37 acre compound is in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. The compound contains the Al-Qibali Mosque, the Dome of the Rock shrine and the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam … Continue reading →

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