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A Day in the Life in Area C: Checkpoints
You all know about daily life in Gaza right now. Bombs. Suffering. The United Nations just officially said this is a genocide. It is the worst, and we pray for Gazan Palestinians every day.
But in the West Bank, the Israelis have made a different style of suffering, in the form of denial of access to movement, and collective punishment.
Do you want me to tell you about my daily life, as a Palestinian today in the West Bank? Do you want your real eyes to realize the real lies that Israelis are telling the world?
It is a Tuesday afternoon, and I am writing this while sitting in a coffee shop in Manger Square, beside the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem. The shop is called Casanova, and two years ago, this shop was crowded with tourists every day. Today, it’s just me and two other people, locals like me whose work has been frozen for two years. No one is visiting us, because of this unfair treatment, this unfair war, this unfair genocide.
Just now, 30 seconds ago, another man here in the coffee shop said, “They closed the gates!” What does he mean? He means the Israeli soldiers suddenly lowered the iron gates they recently…
