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Teju Cole continues eye-opening tour of occupied Palestine

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The Nigerian-American novelist Teju Cole is in Palestine, and continues to send out simple images that capture Palestinian conditions on his twitter feed. (We first posted on this the other day.) These pictures speak for themselves. They’re newsworthy because of their poetry, dignity and frankness.

Some of the recent images Cole has sent, with his tweets:

“View of Bethlehem, with the illegal Jewish settlement of Har Homa on the hills just beyond.”

Har Homa, illegal Jewish settlement, photographed from Bethlehem by Teju Cole
Har Homa, illegal Jewish settlement, photographed from Bethlehem by Teju Cole

“Palestinian Muslim cemetery damaged by Israeli wall, Bethlehem”

Muslim cemetery damaged by Israeli wall
Muslim cemetery damaged by Israeli wall

“Bethlehem”

Bethlehem by Teju Cole
Bethlehem by Teju Cole

“Hebron. Stones thrown at a checkpoint in the middle of town.”

Stones at checkpoint, from Teju Cole in Hebron
Stones at checkpoint, from Teju Cole in Hebron

“Hebron. The man in the poster died in prison.”

Teju Cole image from Hebron
Teju Cole image from Hebron

“Checkpoint, Hebron”

Hebron checkpoint, by Teju Cole
Hebron checkpoint, by Teju Cole

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Thanks, Phil: wow, as you say, poetry, dignity, truth. Thanks, Teju Cole, for such vision.

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Welcome to Jerusalem, Teju!!!

I very glad that the only images you can take are of walls, fences and checkpoints and not of terror victims in our streets and restaurants.

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words help too. from B’Tselem on some Jerusalem residents.

In early March 2014 Hagihon, Jerusalem’s water utility company, stopped the regular supply of running water to several neighborhoods in north-east Jerusalem, namely: Shu’fat Refugee Camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Sh’hadeh and Dahiyat a-Salam (literally: Neighborhood of Peace), which have all been isolated from the rest of Jerusalem by the Separation Barrier. Some homes in these neighborhoods have been completely cut off from the water supply; others receive water intermittently; and as for the rest, the water pressure in the pipes is so low that the water does not reach the faucets. As a result, an estimated 60,000-80,000 Palestinians – mostly permanent residents of Israel – have been left without a regular water supply. The residents spent three weeks in making repeated applications to Hagihon and to the Jerusalem Municipality, seeking to have running water restored. When their requests went unheeded, on 25 March 2013, ACRI petitioned the High Court of Justice seeking to have the water supply renewed without delay.

http://www.btselem.org/jerusalem/20140527_shufat_water_crisis

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