CAFOD website, 12 November 2020 Bethlehem, like other Palestinian communities in the West Bank, faces many challenges. The neighbouring Israeli settlements – illegal under international humanitarian law – encroach upon Palestinian land, the separation barrier restricts freedom of movement and the farmers’ lands are sometimes made inaccessible by restrictions imposed by the Israeli army. Formal Israeli annexation of the West …
Toine van Teeffelen. Arab Educational Institute Catholic Universe, 10 July, 2020 “The Covid-19 crisis is one of the most important things I’ve experienced in life. I felt a responsibility to support the people in my village,” says Faten from, Artas in the occupied Palestinian territory. Faten is 29 and a mother of one. She works as a kindergarten teacher and …
By Rania Murra and Toine van Teeffelen This Week in Palestine, May 2019 In late October, a group of 30 local young women launched the “Artas Deserves to Be Beautiful” advocacy campaign in Artas, a village to the south of Bethlehem. They wanted to solve the waste problem in the village. One participant relates, “I used to read slogans such …
