Ahlam – Australia

We visited the West Bank city of Hebron which is known to be the “heart of the occupation”. It’s almost impossible to be able to explain our full experience, but each photo speaks a thousand words!

Throughout our trip we were subjected to multiple identification checks, crossed through over 10 checkpoints, followed by over 12 soldiers and watched Palestinians being harassed by Israeli settlers.

Shuhada Street in Hebron, which was the main street for Palestinian’s was closed in 2000 by the Israeli military. Palestinians were forced to leave their shops and warehouse’s and are restricted from using the street. To this day, none of the shops have been reopened and the street remains closed to Palestinian vehicles and pedestrians. The street is now labeled as “Jewish Only” and on the very rare occasion a Palestinian holding a foreign passport may be allowed in. we were lucky enough to gain entry into the street.