Palestine: The First LGBTQ Delegation Tour in Pictures
by
Pauline Park
Day 1: Saturday, Jan. 7: Ramallah: political briefing with Leila Farsakh
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: East Jerusalem: Sheikh Jarrah
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: East Jerusalem: a tower in the ‘separation wall’
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: East Jerusalem:
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: East Jerusalem:
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Hebron (Al Khalil): market grille
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Hebron (Al Khalil)
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Hebron (Al Khalil): IDS security watchtower
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Hebron (Al Khalil): settler ‘revenge’ graffiti
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Al Walejeh: Sherine Araj
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Al Walejeh: Pauline Park at the ‘separation wall’
Day 3: Monday, Jan. 9: Al Walejeh
Day 4: Tuesday, Jan. 10: Bethlehem: Deheisheh refugee camp
Day 4: Tuesday, Jan. 10: Mas-ha: Pauline Park with Abu Nidal
Day 4: Tuesday, Jan. 10: Mas-ha: Abu Nidal with his son at the gate to their property
Day 4: Tuesday, Jan. 10: Mas-ha: Israeli settler house next to Abu Nidal’s house
Day 5: Wednesday, Jan. 11: Lyd (Led/Lod) slum
Day 5: Wednesday, Jan. 11: Lyd (Led/Lod) slum
Day 5: Wednesday, Jan. 11: Um al Fahm: Sa’ed Adel Atshan with Abu Hussam
Day 5: Wednesday, Jan. 11: the delegation standing in the ruins of Lajjun
Day 6: Thursday, Jan. 12: Tel Aviv from Jaffa (Yafa/Yafo)
Day 6: Thursday, Jan. 12: Jaffa: Andromeda Hill complex
Day 6: Thursday, Jan. 12: Tel Aviv
Day 7: Friday, Jan. 13: Nabi Saleh
Day 7: Friday, Jan. 13: Nabi Saleh: Manal Tamimi is the sister of Mustafa Tamimi, a 28-year-old Palestinian, who was shot in the head, and critically injured, with a tear gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier at very close range, on 9 December 2011. Manal explained to delegates the circumstances of Mustafa’s tragic death at the hands of the IDS.
Bilal and Manal Tamimi and the Tamimi family have become the core of the resistance to Apartheid Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh; every Friday, villagers march unarmed down the main street in the tiny village to protest the illegal occupation only to be met with violence from the army of illegal Israeli occupation.
Monday, Jan. 16: the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: Pauline Park
Monday, Jan. 13: King David Hotel in Jerusalem
Tuesday, Jan. 14: Levinsky Park in Tel Aviv
March 3: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) demonstration at the NYC LGBT Community Center in Manhattan
March 3: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) demonstration at the NYC LGBT Community Center in Manhattan
March 3: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) demonstration at the NYC LGBT Community Center in Manhattan
March 3: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) demonstration at the NYC LGBT Community Center in Manhattan
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