August 6, 2016. Israeli settler children prepare to walk down Shuhada Street. I hope and pray for a day when both they and Palestinian children can walk down this street and every street without fear of violence and repression.
After having finished searching and humiliating a Palestinian woman, two Border Police officers walk away.
The way down from Prayer Road. The road is divided into two sections. The paved section is for Israelis. The other is for Palestinians. (1)
The way down from Prayer Road. The road is divided into two sections. The paved section is for Israelis. The other is for Palestinians. (2)
An Israeli Border Police officer guards a settler sleeping at a bus stop.
Again, I have no idea who is writing "Free Israel" in parts of occupied Hebron...
... but someone responded
An Israeli Border Policewoman returns an ID to a Palestinian. Unlike her other colleagues, this particular one is friendly towards Palestinian people she interacts with and smiles at them and tries speaking Arabic to them.
Unfortunately, the fact that she is in uniform and the relationship between them, which is one of occupier and occupied, makes friendship all but impossible.
It is good that she treats people more respectfully than her colleagues, and she does not go out of her way to make the journey home more difficult for elderly men, or stop people from praying at the mosque because they fall in a certain age category.
However, she is still a tool of an unjust system and continues to enforce the occupation, even if it is with a smile.
God willing she will realize that her profession is a wrong one, and leave the military which gives an otherwise probably good person like her instructions to be complicit in human rights violations.
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