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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: A wall made of rocks and car tires runs through the landscape as the sun sets over Yanoun village. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_787...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The sun sets over Yanoun village. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH2_060...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements. Here, a settler's house is visible just a few hundred metres from the plot of land of the Yanoun villagers.
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  • 18 April 2019, Yatta, Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Beekeeper Abed from Yatta in the Hebron Governorate of the West Bank tends to his bees. Today is a good day, as he has two new queens ready to populate new hives.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Falafel being cooked.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_788...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israeli authorities have placed a sign prohibiting access to what is an old burial ground for the local villagers of Yanoun. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_790...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun (centre) sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements (top).
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_781...jpg
  • 18 April 2019, Yatta, Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Beekeeper Abed from Yatta in the Hebron Governorate of the West Bank tends to his bees. Today is a good day, as he has two new queens ready to populate new hives.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190418_AH1_792...jpg
  • Shepherd boy near Jayyous.
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  • Just below the edge of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank, an artificial lake has been built for Israelis. Palestinian neighbours are not allowed to use the park, and they have a restricted allocation of water that is considered inadequate by the World Health Organisation.<br />
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The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits an occupying power from transferring citizens from its own territory to occupied territory. 1000 Palestinians were evicted to make way for the construction of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: A female shepherd tends to her flock in the valley of Yanoun. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_786...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements. Here, a settler's house is visible just a few hundred metres from the plot of land of the Yanoun villagers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_783...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_778...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH2_059...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The sun sets over Yanoun village. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH2_060...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israeli authorities have placed a sign prohibiting access to what is an old burial ground for the local villagers of Yanoun. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_790...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_788...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun (centre) sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements (top).
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_781...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Furniture maker Ali Dana runs a small shop in the Tulkarem refugee camp. The camp is integrated into the city, yet the refugees remain in a specific geographical area, as they otherwise risk losing their status as refugees, originally from Jaffa or other parts of present-day Israel, as they were forced to flee in 1948.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_788...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: A wall made of rocks and car tires runs through the landscape as the sun sets over Yanoun village. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_787...jpg
  • Palestinians collect the remains of olive trees bulldozed in April 2003 by the Israeli military in the Gaza strip, occupied since 1967 by Israel. Many of the trees were hundreds of years old. The trunks are often taken to be replanted on illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories.
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  • Children in the Aida Camp in Bethlehem look from windows. The West Bank has 19 refugee camps and 741,409 registered refugees. These are people who lost both home and means of livelihood when Israel occupied Palestinian territories by force in 1948.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Furniture maker Ali Dana runs a small shop in the Tulkarem refugee camp. The camp is integrated into the city, yet the refugees remain in a specific geographical area, as they otherwise risk losing their status as refugees, originally from Jaffa or other parts of present-day Israel, as they were forced to flee in 1948.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH2_053...jpg
  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel look out over Yanoun. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompanier Fanny from Sweden, from the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel takes a photo of Yanoun. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank. There is only one road into the village, which is otherwise surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190417_AH1_784...jpg
  • Participants in the Cyberbridges project, a computer literacy project which works with youth in the Daheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The project receives support from Catholic Relief Services and fosters communication between Palestinian youth and youth in the United States.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B07...jpg
  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B07...jpg
  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B07...jpg
  • A participant, her face illuminated by a computer monitor, in the Cyberbridges project, a computer literacy project which works with youth in the Daheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The project receives support from Catholic Relief Services.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B06...jpg
  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B06...jpg
  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B06...jpg
  • A man lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • A women lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • A street in the city of Nablus, in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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  • A woman in Aboud, a town in the Occupied West Bank.
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  • A man in Aboud, a town in the Occupied West Bank.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B06...jpg
  • A boy lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • A boy lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • 6 October 2018, Jericho, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The town of Jericho, with the view towards Jordan in the distance.
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  • Ten-year old Saad Abukhussa helps cover strawberry beds for the night on his familiy's farm in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip. After several years of blocking strawberry exports, in late 2010 Israel began permitting limited exports of strawberries from the Gaza strip, destined for European markets..
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  • Young men work on electrical wiring in a vocational training center in al-Qarara, in the Gaza Strip. Sponsored by the Near East Council of Churches Committee for Refugee Work, part of the ACT Alliance, the center trains youth in residential and industrial electrical work..
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-132.jpg
  • A Palestinian man harvests carnations in a greenhouse in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Gazan farmers once exported more than 50 million cut flowers a year, but the Israeli government's blockade of the territory stopped most of that commerce. Under intense international pressure, Israel partially eased its restrictions on flower exports in 2010, yet sales to European markets remain only a quarter of what they once were.
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  • A man in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip. .
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  • Fishers unload their catch after a night of fishing off Gaza's coastline. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of Gaza were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region....
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  • War-weary children in Rafah, in the south of Gaza, participate in a psychosocial program run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. The program is designed to help the children cope better with stress caused by the 2014 war with Israel and the continuing hardship provoked by the Israeli siege of the Palestinian territory.
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  • Zaher Elyan lives in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Her home was damaged by Israeli air strikes during the war in 2014, and she and her family took refuge in a United Nations school. When the war ended, International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided a large water tank as the family rebuilt part of their house where today 11 people sleep in one room.
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  • A pharmacist counsels a patient in a clinic in Rafah, in the south of Gaza. The clinic is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. DSPR is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Children during an activity at the Youth Empowerment Center in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The program is supported by Caritas and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, and is designed to help children better cope with the trauma they experienced during the 2014 war.<br />
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In the wake of that war between the government of Gaza and the government of Israel, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
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  • Spices on sale in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military.
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  • Amani Abu Sakran holds her 5-month old son Abdul as she talks with Boduor El Hellow, a counselor at a clinic in Shejaiya, a neighborhood of Gaza City that was hard hit by the Israeli military during the 2014 war. The clinic is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. This clinic has twice been destroyed by Israeli air strikes, but each time has been rebuilt by DSPR.
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  • Windows in Shejaiya, a neighborhood of Gaza City that was hard hit by the Israeli military during the 2014 war.
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  • An inspector closely checks strawberries grown for export by local farmers in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip. After several years of blocking strawberry exports, in late 2010 Israel began permitting limited exports of strawberries from the Gaza strip, destined for European markets..
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  • Salha Mugat earned a living with her sewing machine until an Israeli rocket crashed into her house in December 2009, destroying her equipment and severely damaging her house. With a $4,500 grant from the YMCA, a member of the ACT Alliance, she has reestablished herself in business with three new machines, an electric generator, and a stockpile of cloth. Her husband Samir used to support the family with a job working in citrus groves in Israel, until the Israeli government sealed off the Gaza Strip. During that time, he was injured in the eye when a Palestinian rocket, launched from Gaza, exploded nearby. In January 2011, he was receiving medical treatment for the eye injury in Egypt when political demonstrations there closed the border with Gaza, trapping him in Egypt.
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  • A Palestinian man carries sheets of twisted roofing blown off a pharmaceutical warehouse in the Jabalya refugee camp that was hit during February 9, 2011, airstrikes by U.S.-made Israeli war planes. The bombings, which the Israeli military claimed came in response to rocket attacks from inside Gaza, injured eight people..
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  • A Hamas police officer inspects damaged materials inside a pharmaceutical warehouse in the Jabalya refugee camp that was hit during February 9, 2011, airstrikes by U.S.-made Israeli war planes. The bombings, which the Israeli military claimed came in response to rocket attacks from inside Gaza, injured eight people..
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  • Fishermen pull in a net at the dock in Gaza City. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of the Gaza Strip were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region....
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  • Participants in the electrical course at a vocational training center in al-Qarara, in the Gaza Strip. Sponsored by the Near East Council of Churches Committee for Refugee Work, part of the ACT Alliance, the center trains youth in residential and industrial electrical work..
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  • A Palestinian man inspects a carnation destined for export to Europe, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Gazan farmers once exported more than 50 million cut flowers a year, but the Israeli government's blockade of the territory stopped most of that commerce. Under intense international pressure, Israel partially eased its restrictions on flower exports in 2010, yet sales to European markets remain only a quarter of what they once were.
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-126.jpg
  • A Palestinian man harvests carnations in a greenhouse in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Gazan farmers once exported more than 50 million cut flowers a year, but the Israeli government's blockade of the territory stopped most of that commerce. Under intense international pressure, Israel partially eased its restrictions on flower exports in 2010, yet sales to European markets remain only a quarter of what they once were.
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-122.jpg
  • A Palestinian man harvests carnations in a greenhouse in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Gazan farmers once exported more than 50 million cut flowers a year, but the Israeli government's blockade of the territory stopped most of that commerce. Under intense international pressure, Israel partially eased its restrictions on flower exports in 2010, yet sales to European markets remain only a quarter of what they once were.
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-113.jpg
  • Building rubble that has been ground up is turned into new construction blocks in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip. The rubble comes from buildings destroyed in Israeli bombings. Israel does not permit many building materials, including cement, to enter Gaza..
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  • Girls walk home from school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip. .
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  • Fish on sale in the market of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of Gaza were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region....
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-080.jpg
  • A woman shopping in the market of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip.  While Gazans grow much of their own food, repressive restrictions on land use imposed by the Israeli military means some food has to be imported at great cost from Egypt and Israel....
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  • Fish buyers eye a portion of the morning's catch before bidding at the wholesale fish market in  Gaza City. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of Gaza were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region....
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-065.jpg
  • Fish buyers aggressively make their bids in the face of the auctioneer selling off the morning's catch at the wholesale fish market in  Gaza City. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of Gaza were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region....
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-066.jpg
  • The future of their tiny territory uncertain, an older couple sits on the sand of the beach in Gaza, staring out to a sea that is no longer theirs. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of Gaza were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many Gaza fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region.
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-051.jpg
  • Sister Mariam Almiron, a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word from Argentina, spins a girl around following Sunday Mass at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. There are only some 3,000 Christians in Gaza, of which just over 200 are Catholic..
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  • Sister Mariam Almiron, a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word from Argentina, spins a girl around following Sunday Mass at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. There are only some 3,000 Christians in Gaza, of which just over 200 are Catholic..
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  • The parish priest, Father Jorge Hernandez, greets Catholics as the gather in front of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, following Sunday Mass. There are only some 3,000 Christians in Gaza, of which just 200 are Catholic..
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  • Father Jorge Hernandez celebrates Mass in the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. There are only some 3,000 Christians in Gaza, of which just 200 are Catholic. Father Hernandez is Argentinian, and a missionary of the Argentina-based Institute of the Incarnate Word..
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  • Fatima Al-Dalo, a 62-year old breast cancer patient, sits in her bed in the oncology ward of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Treating cancer patients here is a challenge for health care professionals. Patients suffer from a chronic shortage of several medicines because of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Replacement parts for medical technology are often blocked. Visas are virtually impossible to obtain for continuing education outside of Gaza for health workers. And only a small percentage of patients referred to hospitals in the West Bank, Jerusalem, or Israel are granted permission by the Israeli authorities to leave.
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  • Amal Rashid, a 50-year old breast cancer patient hoping for a referral to treatment in Israel, gets a visit from her doctors on the oncology ward of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Examining her x-ray is Dr. Ramy Meqdad (left) and Dr. Mohamed Al-Sadeq. Treating cancer patients here is a challenge for health care professionals. Patients suffer from a chronic shortage of several medicines because of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Replacement parts for medical technology are often blocked. Visas are virtually impossible to obtain for continuing education outside of Gaza for health workers. And only a small percentage of patients referred to hospitals in the West Bank, Jerusalem, or Israel are granted permission by the Israeli authorities to leave..
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  • Young women in Gaza participate in a group discussion at the Alassria Cultural Center in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The center is supported by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization from the United States.
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  • Adham Khalil, a youth activist, walks along a street in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip...
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  • Father Jorge Hernandez leads a Corpus Christi procession outside the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. Father Hernandez is Argentinian, and a missionary of the Argentina-based Institute of the Incarnate Word.
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  • Father Jorge Hernandez celebrates Mass in the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. Father Hernandez is Argentinian, and a missionary of the Argentina-based Institute of the Incarnate Word. Celebrating with him is Father Mario da Silva, a Brazilian member of the same order.
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  • Abed Rabu Abu Jowe'a waters the flowers he planted in front of his family's transitional house built by Catholic Relief Services in Khan Yunis, Gaza. His house and many others in the area were destroyed by the Israeli military during the 2014 war between the state of Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza. His family of 11 people moved into the new 80-square meter house in April 2015. A taxi driver, he has already added to the house, and says that with proper care it should last at least ten years, twice what CRS expects. Yet Jowe'a isn't hopeful that tensions between Israel and Gaza will diminish anytime soon.
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  • Tombs in the cemetery of the Saint Porphyrios Orthodox Church in Gaza City, Gaza. Fifty tombs in the cemetery were damaged by Israeli bombing during the war in 2014, and International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, has paid to have them repaired. The church, which was also damaged by the bombing, served as a refuge for 240 people during the war, and as a feeding center for an additional 100 people. IOCC provided the food and other supplies for the displaced families.
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  • War-weary children in Rafah, in the south of Gaza, participate in a psychosocial program run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, , and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. The program is designed to help the children cope better with stress caused by the 2014 war with Israel and the continuing hardship provoked by the Israeli siege of the Palestinian territory.
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  • Several students in an advanced dressmaking class pose in their classroom in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is sponsored by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. DSPR is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Amna Ali Attan stands in her garden in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Her home and garden were damaged by Israeli rocket fire during the war in 2014, and she took refuge in a United Nations school. When the war ended, International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped her rehabilitate her garden and install new irrigation equipment and buy new seeds and seedlings. She produces tomatoes, onions, eggplant, squash, spinach and other crops, supporting her family of 11 people.
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  • Zaher Elyan lives in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Her home was damaged by Israeli air strikes during the war in 2014, and she and her family took refuge in a United Nations school. When the war ended, International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided a large water tank as the family rebuilt part of their house where today 11 people sleep in one room.
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  • Student Emad Abu Holli climbs a utility pole during a class on electrical wiring at the Vocational Training Center in Khan Yunis, Gaza. The center is sponsored by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. DSPR is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Fish buyers bid on the morning's catch in the harbor of Gaza City, Gaza. The Israeli military prevents fishers from venturing more than six nautical miles out to sea--and often times even less--preventing them from catching the fish the Palestinian territory needs. Although Gaza sits beside the Mediterranean, residents complain about high prices--a result of restricting the fishing fleet from going farther out to sea.
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  • Fish buyers thrust their hands into the face of auctioneer Hani Atala as they bid on the morning's catch in the harbor of Gaza City, Gaza. The Israeli military prevents fishers from venturing more than six nautical miles out to sea--and often times even less--preventing them from catching the fish the Palestinian territory needs. Although Gaza sits beside the Mediterranean, residents complain about high prices--a result of restricting the fishing fleet from going farther out to sea.
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  • Boys with toy squirt guns play in the Al-Shalti refugee camp in Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military.
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  • Emad Almoqari leads a group of children in an activity at the Youth Empowerment Center in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The program is supported by Caritas and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, and is designed to help children better cope with the trauma they experienced during the 2014 war.<br />
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In the wake of that war between the government of Gaza and the government of Israel, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
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  • Emad Almoqari leads a group of children in an activity at the Youth Empowerment Center in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The program is supported by Caritas and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, and is designed to help children better cope with the trauma they experienced during the 2014 war.<br />
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In the wake of that war between the government of Gaza and the government of Israel, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
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  • Emad Almoqari leads a group of children in an activity at the Youth Empowerment Center in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, as Shoroug Faraj Allah looks on. The program is supported by Caritas and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, and is designed to help children better cope with the trauma they experienced during the 2014 war.<br />
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In the wake of that war between the government of Gaza and the government of Israel, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
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  • Shoroug Faraj Allah leads a group of children in an activity at the Youth Empowerment Center in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The program is supported by Caritas and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, and is designed to help children better cope with the trauma they experienced during the 2014 war.<br />
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In the wake of that war between the government of Gaza and the government of Israel, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
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  • A man sells women's clothing on the sidewalk in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military.
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  • Men watch workers with heavy equipment clean up the rubble of bombed buildings in the Al-Shalti refugee camp in Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military.
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  • A girl in a narrow street in the Al-Shalti refugee camp in Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military.
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