Updates from the Field

Dispatches from
Aida Camp

Aida Camp is one of three refugee camps in Bethlehem established by the United Nations after the Nakba in 1948. The camp was established for 700 people and now contains 5,000. It is a flashpoint of politics and its residents staunchly defend their rights as Palestinian refugees.

Dispatches from

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the symbolic center of politics, peoplehood, and religious identity for Jews, Muslims,
and Christians. Palestinians in East Jerusalem have lived under Israeli rule since1967 and face violence, demolition, expulsion, and discrimination on a
daily basis.

Dispatches from
South Hebron

The South Hebron Hills, referred to as Masafer Yatta in Arabic, is an agricultural district in Area C of the West Bank that contains 15 Palestinian hamlets. Their land claims were recently rejected in the Supreme Court and if they are evicted it will be the largest single expulsion since 1948.