September 3, 2003

This morning, Elizabeth went to the school to tie up some loose ends and to greet everyone. It was very nice to see all the teachers and students - we'll sure miss them when we leave. School has been in session for a week now, and most of that time the Jenin kids have not been able to come. We hope this school year will be smoother for them, but this is not a very promising start. Then Elizabeth spent much of the day cleaning the apartment, which seems to have accumulated a year's worth of dust in our absence.

Marthame went to Tubas to do some research for our film. We are trying to choose people we have come to know who, collectively, represent Christians in the northern West Bank. We were looking for someone from Tubas, and it looks like we have found her - a college student who studies in Nablus.

A young college students “martyrdom” poster is now all over town.

Also today we learned that a wanted AAUJ student was killed. He was the young man we wrote a story about a while back - it looks like he didn't turn himself in after all. The story circulating is that he was killed at a checkpoint - stories conflict as to whether he was carrying a weapon or not. But now his poster is all over town.