In the Light, Palestine-Israel: "Giving hope to the hopeless"

A program of the East Jerusalem YMCA reaching the entire West Bank of occupied Palestine—one example of how Palestinian society deals with the effects of occupation: trauma, physical injury, loss of work, degraded dignity, and despair. Plus (an apparent non sequitor): reproducing bibilical figures.

Palestine-olive wood working-6749
Palestine-olive wood working-6749
I ponder: are any of these olive wood workers beneficiaries of the Y’s rehab program? How have they been affected by the occupation? If not for the occupation what lives would they now live? Will their conditions be any different when free?

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