In the West Bank with Machsom Watch and Esti Tsal

Photographs by Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography

Observations of a people in turmoil

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Machsom Watch, a group of volunteer Israeli women, monitors checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories. Esti Tsal led me and a few friends on her monitoring session, meeting us in Jaffa-Tel Aviv, and driving effortlessly into settlements to demonstrate how easy being oblivous to the occupation is for most israelis.

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In a convenience store near a major army base adjacent to Harawwa
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In the convenience store, an employee with a shirt showing Bush's last day in office
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Stopped because of curfew in Fundaq, a small Palestinian village whose road is regularly used by settlers
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Notes written in Fundaq about the curfew
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Fundaq
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Fundaq villager
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Taking testimony, Fundaq
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