People of the village have been gathering food and money for the victims of Jenin Camp from the recent Israeli attack. We will probably go as part of an official delegation tomorrow.
Read MoreFamilies of those who had died in the past year handed out sweets to those who came to pay their respects. It seems like death is simply everywhere.
Read MoreMarthame headed to school and then off in the afternoon to play soccer. It was a good chance to get some of the pent-up emotional baggage of the last few days out.
Read MoreIsraeli tanks had apparently come to the edge of Tubas, so we were anxious to get our many Tubas students and teachers back home to their families.
Read MoreThere are worries that the Israeli army, hot on the heels of Sharon's frightening message of "hitting the Palestinians harder", is preparing to enter more and more Palestinian villages conducting house to house searches. People here are feeling worried, sad, angry, and hopeless.
Read MoreThe lectionary was the story which most of us know as the Prodigal Son (interestingly known as "The Wise Son" in Arabic - because he returns in the end) from Luke 15.
Read MoreA good friend of ours who works in Israel told us about his return trip home to Zababdeh. When he approached the border, the soldier leveled his M-16 at him and made him demonstrate - from a distance of some 50 meters - that he wasn't carrying any explosives. Attacks at checkpoints are on the rise, and the soldiers, many of them scared 18 year-old kids, are not taking many chances. But, beyond the call of security, people have also been shot, detained, beaten without reason, fearing for their lives.
Read MoreBalata refugee camp was hit today in Nablus - and hit hard according to the initial reports we've gotten. These people, refugees from the 1948 War and their descendants, were refugees again today as the Israeli army told them to leave while they conducted house-to-house searches. Many preferred to stay, remembering quite well what happened the last time they left their houses "for a little while".
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