Palestine

Welcome to Checkpoint 160

In August, CPT Reservist Maggie Hindley returned to Al Khalil/Hebron after a few years. She reunited with those she’d met before, and reflects on the changes in their daily lives after two years of war in Gaza.

A garden and a wall

Beyond imagination

In the occupied West Bank, checkpoints enforce restricted movement on Palestinian families. One family describes the daily struggles of navigating them.

A person wrapped in a burial shroud

Occupation, death, and other privileges 

Tameem Tamimi, a member of CPT Palestine, reflects on life, death, grief and survival in the context of the Israeli Occupation and the genocide in Gaza.

A fence bearing an Israeli flag blocking the entrance of a cemetery

Even our dead are imprisoned

In most parts of the world, visiting a grave is a simple, deeply human act. People walk to the cemetery, bring flowers, sit by the

A woman in a red jacket carries olive tree saplings

Prayer of a part-time peacemaker

The following prayer was written by Maggie Hindley, a reservist with CPT Palestine. God, I love this place.I love its scents and its tastes,its limestone

Palestinian women, some of them pregnant, hold their hands over their bellies

Motherhood in doubt

Women in Palestine have many reasons to worry, but motherhood under occupation brings even heavier fears. Danya Nasereddin reflects on the meaning of motherhood and resistance in these conditions.

Two children look over a city scape

Too tall for them to believe you

What does it mean when a child is “too tall for their age”? CPT Palestine’s Shahd Al Junaidi reflects on the oppressions meted out to such children under the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

Two Israeli soldiers arrest a man

The charge: defending the land

Thousands of Palestinians are languishing in Israeli prisons simply for existing and upholding their right to live freely on their ancestral land. Among them are

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