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Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel

2 March 2020, Hebron: Participants in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel undertake a 'school run' in the H2 area of Hebron, by which they offer an international presence as Palestinian children go to school. The children are otherwise at risk of harrassment from Israeli settlers and military, as tensions can lead to confrontations in the occupied Palestinian territories (Photo: Albin Hillert)
Justice & Advocacy

What’s it like to monitor human rights in Hebron? Alex Brock gives an eyewitness account

An international development practitioner from Ireland, who recently returned from a deployment with the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, provides this eyewitness account of what it’s like to monitor human rights in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank
Features

When not even home at night is safe for Palestinian children

“My Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel teammates were clearly upset when they came home one night after visiting a family in the West Bank town of Azun. As they debriefed with me, I learnt about the arrest of a 14-year-old Palestinian boy earlier that morning. This was the first time that we heard a firsthand account of Palestinian children being detained by the Israeli military, but sadly this wasn’t the last story that we documented in our roles as Ecumenical Accompaniers,” says Nell Potter from the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network

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