1948 - The Israeli State was established on 78% of Palestine, 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and became refugees

1967 - Israeli forcibly occupied the West Bank and Gaza strip, the remaining 22% of historic Palestine, creating yet more refugees

Map of Palestine Crying by Mohammed, 14

Inside the love heart on the map is written in Arabic ‘Palestine’ and on the flag, ‘Allah’.

To the left of the map is a dove of peace crying next to a symbol of Palestine, an olive tree. Jayyous has been partitioned from 90% of it’s farmland through Israel’s erection of the separation fence. For generations Jayyous has been an agricultural village, relying mostly on olive trees some of which date back to over 600 years old.

The picture, like Jayyous, is surrounded by barbed wire.
Above the gun translated from Arabic: ‘Jerusalem is ours’ and the words shooting from the gun translate ‘there is one God and Mohammed is his messenger’.
Behind the map is a picture of al Aqsa mosque and the Quran.

You must help us Europe by Areej Mohammed, 15

The Arabic writing in the centre of the picture translates: ‘he gives Sharon the symbol of peace but Sharon thinks about how to put peace in a cage’.

The Sleeping Countries by Mohammed, 14

Translated:
from the top: ‘we call them all the time...’
from the bottom: ‘...and they are sleeping’

From right to left, top to bottom: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Morocco and Palestine

Traditions

Mohammed 18 - The tradition of the Palestinian people is providing for the sick people, to make them healthy and help them psychologically. Another tradition is helping the poor people by giving them food and money. A third tradition is to wear black when somebody dies.

At the end of the day you have the fourth largest army in the world with billions of $s worth of USA support yearly fighting a militia armed mostly with rifles, grenades and rockets.

The situation in Palestine and Israel isn’t a matter of theology or ideology, what is happening is a humanitarian crisis. - John Butler, Anglican Chaplain

USA-financed weapons (casings) collected from around Nablus during “Operation Defensive Shield”