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2003-2004 Pictures shown by Clarence Musgrave during a visit to Aberdeen 2004 [Click on the small picture to enlarge it.] |
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1. Map prepared by Israel Committee againt House Demolitions, giving the Roads and Settlements which they way are being used to exercise control over the West Bank by Israel. | |
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2. Expanded model of the West Bank | |
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3. Map showing what many belive to be the long term aim of many Israeli Jewish people - the surrounding of the Palestinians on all side by Israeli occupation and the Wall. | |
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4. Jayyous - a village in the Northern West Bank near Qalqilya. Women of the village watching the bulldozers tear up their land and trees. | |
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5. Jayyous - men who had been protesting become victims of a tear-gas attack by the Israeli army. | |
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6. Jayyous - an olive tree in a grove that has not been disturbed. | |
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6a. Jayyous - olive trees that have been "shaved" - but back prior to being uprooted by the Israeli army. | |
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7. Jayyous - trees that have been uprooted. There is a black market trade in these trees by the contractors who work for the Israeli army. They remove the trees after they have dug them up and sell them in Israel to Jewis farmers. | |
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8. Artistic diagram to show the size and extent of the Fence | |
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9. Jayyous - finished Fence going across the plain which is the land owned by the villagers of Jayyous. The village is to the right, and on the left hand side of the Fence are the farms and wells of the village, cut off by the Fence. | |
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10. Jayyous - Israeli army convoy moving along the tarred road beside the Fence which enables the Army to patrol and control the Fence. | |
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11. Jayyous - Palestinian farms on the Western side of the Fence. | |
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12. Jayyous - farmers queuing up to wait for the gate to be opened by the Israeli soldiers to let them get to their fields. This gate was kept closed for 20 days in October 2003, preventing farmers watering their crops. | |
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13. Jayyous - close up view of the fence | |
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14. Jayyous - the gate through which one family has to bring their children to school. They were told at the end of 2003 that they would have to abandon their house and move into the village. | |
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15. Jayyous - the notice that is beside the gate - warning or welcoming? | |
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16. Jayyous - in the foreground is Palestinian land that cannot be irrigated because of lack of water. Behind it is an Israeli settlement which is never short of water, and so has luxuriant vegetation and trees. | |
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17. Palestinian house in a village near Jayyous, surrounded by the Wall. A Settlement came and built beside it, hence the reason for the Wall being built - “protection” for the Settlement regardless of the effect on the Palestinian family. | |
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18. The other side of the Wall from the house in Photo
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19. Jerusalem/Abu Dis. Abu Dis is a village near Bethany on the Eastern side of Jerusalem. This is the first wall that was built by the Israeli army to cut off the main road from Abu Dis into Jerusalem. People were still able to climb over and round it. | |
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20. Jerusalem/Abu Dis Clarence with Hava Halevi, a Jewish peace activist, at the Abu Dis wall in January 2004. Its height is slightly over 2 metres | |
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21. Jerusalem/Abu Dis Concrete building blocks for the new Wall. They are designed to stand on the supports at the base, and to slot into each other to form the wall. | |
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22. Jerusalem/Abu Dis The crane gives some idea of the size of the building blocks. | |
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23. Jerusalem/Abu Dis The Wall under construction. Note the height of the houses to the left of the Wall. It towers over them. | |
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24. Jerusalem/Abu Dis Clarence and Hava at the new Wall - compare its height with that of the old wall in Photo No 20. | |
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25. Jerusalem/Abu Dis A Palestinian woman coming up the hill home, having been down to the shops. She gives some perspective to the height of the Wall. | |
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26. House demolitions, Jerusalem. One way the Jerusalem City Council tries to control the growth of the Arab sector in East Jerusalem is to issue very few permits to build houses. Arab people often get tired waiting and start to build. Frequently them the City Council sends the Police and the Army to demolish houses. This is one where a Permit had been applied for some years ago, and the house was demolished in October 2003. | |
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27. Demolished house. | |
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28. Demolished House. The woman in the foreground is a Jewish woman who is trying to get the City Council to issue permits. Then there will be the task of trying to get money to re-build the houses. | |
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29. Picture of what life could be like. A Jewish woman sitting talking with an Arab woman in the village of Idna, near Hebron. The population of the village is over 17,000. The Jewish woman is a University Professor - Victoria. She came to live in Israel from Poland in the mid - 1950’s and has been active in the “peace movement” most of her adult life. | |
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30. Shukran is a little Arab girl suffering from Apert’s Syndrome. Victoria helped arrange an operation for her in a hospital in Israel. | |
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31. Shukran’s parents. If the plans of the Israeli army are carried out, their village just outside Bethlehem will be surrounded by a Fence, and the only exit will be controlled by the Israeli army. | |
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32. Victoria brought Shukran’s brothers and sister to a family outing to the coast - illegal - as they did not have any permits. Without her help, they would never have a chance of getting to the coast. | |
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33. A drawing done by a Palestinian child to show how he viewed his country - surrounded by barbed wire, and blood spilt all round it. | |
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34. A Christmas Card produced by an organisation in Bethlehem - the baby is surrounded by barbed wire, and on the outside are Mary and Joseph, the Shepherds and the animals. People in Bethlehem increasingly feel that they are in prison, behind barbed wire. | |
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35. A common sight all over the West Bank are the Pill Box towers built by the Israeli army to control road junctions and entrances to villages. This is at the entrance to the village of Surif, south of Bethlehem. | |
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36. Some interesting statistics about the changes in the population of Jerusalem. | |
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37. The interior of St Andrew’s Church, Jerusalem | |
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38. Jayyous - citrus trees growing up through the rolls of razor wire by the Fence. People there see it as a sort of Parable, - that life will in the end overcome the Fence and all that it stands for. | |
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