EAPPI photo gallery
Second group of EAs
March-June 2003
Twelve ecumenical accompaniers (EAs) have been in the Occupied Territories since March 2003, and will continue on the ground until the end of May. The second group of volunteers to participate in a World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), they come from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA.

Bridge-building, solidarity and witness are the focus for this diverse group of people. As Israel announces that it will bar peace activists from entry and deport them, those who have responded to the call to advocate for justice are finding their place in an increasingly hostile environment of unabated assassinations, home demolitions, siege and suicide bombings.

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Photos 01-03
See 1 May 2003 report by ecumenical accompanier Suzanne from Sweden, entitled "Fruitless"
01 - Beit Hanoun, outside Gaza city. In 72 hours 330,000 square meters of farmland were destroyed by Israeli tanks. Forty-year-old lemon and orange groves were uprooted.

02 - Beit Hanoun: Field world and farmer

03 - Beit Hanoun, outside Gaza city. Tent put up on the ruins of a demolished house.

1 May 2003
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Photo 04:
See 10 May 2003 report by Ecumenical Accompanier Joanna from Sweden on "Missile attack in Gaza City".
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Photos: heba 1-11
See 20 May 2003 story "In the Eye of the Storm: Eating at Heba's Home" by Ecumenical Accompanier Joel from USA.
After Heba Da'arma, a 19-year-old university student, blew herself up in Afula in May 2003, simultaneously committing both suicide and killing, three Israelis citizens, two Jews and one Arab, and injuring around 70 people, the Israeli army demolished her family's home in Tubas.

 
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Photos joel 1-3:
joel1: Silat al-Harithiya. Ecumenical accompanier Hansruedi in a home. May 2003.
joel2: Zababdeh. Latin church on Thursday before Easter.
joel3: Joel in Jenin
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Photos Zababdeh 1-5:
See 24 June 2003 article "Occupied Palestinian Territories: Still home to Christians" by Ecumenical Accompanier Joel from USA
These photos are available free of charge in high resolution format to accompany articles using the WCC press feature on Christians in the Occupied Territories (Feat-03-09 of ). Please contact the WCC Media Relations office: media
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Hanan's story:
See 30 June 2003 story "Hanan's story", by Ecumenical Accompanier Anders
Palestinian women being interrogated at a checkpoint outside Tulkarem, June 2003.
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