While visiting the home of some Bedouin farmers in occupied Palestine, I was invited to try milking a sheep. I was rubbish. Honestly, it’s harder than it looks. And it really feels funny, like a warm furry water balloon. Later that evening, the farmers treated … Read More →
Tag Archives: West Bank 2008
Mother
A Bedouin farmer in the Tubas region of the West Bank, occupied Palestine. She told us the plight of her children. The family farm is often surrounded by Israeli military exercises. Image and text © Josh Jones 2008.
Strength
Kalim, local councillor, shows me the positions in which he and other inmates of the prison were forced to stand for days on end. This building was built by the British during the Mandate control of Palestine, and was later used by the Israeli military … Read More →
Strength II
Khalim is sitting in the courtyard where he and other Palestinian political prisoners were kept chained and hooded. He explained how he was commonly kept awake there for a number of days; soldiers would pour freezing water over anyone who appeared to fall asleep. The … Read More →
Al-Aqaba
A man of Al-Aqaba, a village in the Tubas region of Palestine, shows us the demolition orders for the school, nursery, clinic and mosque that he helped to found. If the orders are not challenged in court, which is a lengthy and expensive process, then … Read More →
Father
A man of the village of Frush Beit Dajan stands before the mud brick structure that he and his family were forced to live in after their home was demolished. Having destroyed their home, the Israeli civil service have prohibited the family from making any … Read More →
Roots
In Frush Beit Dajan, a small rural village in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Image and text © Josh Jones 2008.
Precious
Woman and her grandchild, in a small Bedouin tent in occupied Palestine. The soldiers from the nearby Israeli settlement use the crop fields around these tents for live-fire exercises. I spoke to a woman in the next tent who had been shot in the head … Read More →
Pride
Bedouin children in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. The children of this valley are put at constant risk by the live-fire exercises that Israeli military conduct in the area. Their mother told me how soldiers would set off explosives of all sorts, from gas … Read More →