🧵Children of the occupied West Bank, October 11-15.
First up, kids in Umm al-Kheir—where a settler shot Yinon Levy dead in July—watching settlers cut up a fence to steal more of their land.
First up, kids in Umm al-Kheir—where a settler shot Yinon Levy dead in July—watching settlers cut up a fence to steal more of their land.
Kenan, youngest son of Awdah Hathaleen. He has no father now but he is surrounded by uncles, cousins, etc. and I have never seen a child more loved.
I gave Majd way too much candy.
The ensuing sugar high. In the middle one you get a peek of me as the candy kingpin. Last one, he was off completely on his own just going to town.
Bouncer till morning. Then a snack break.
This one very important. How many kids just like this blown to pieces in Gaza?
Soccer match; the real MVP; kids walking to school that they don’t have because Israel has strangled the PA’s finances and forced them to cut classes to three days per week
Not a kid, but a young man from Susya who is supposed to be studying at a US university right now, but his visa was denied on his flight out of Jordan.
I was trying to interview this guy about his hellish time in Israeli prison but I got very caught up with his two sons negotiating over a cup of mystery green juice.
Playing some kind of Pictionary with Juma and his two girls in Tuwani—the Masafer Yatta village at the center of ‘No Other Land.’
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