Please keep Christian Peacemaker Team-Palestine’s Palestinian partners and team in your heart and mind during this challenging time of occupation for Palestinians and transition for the team. May 2019 deepen everyone’s resolve to confront the powers of violence and work for Just Peace for everyone in the region.
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On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumatising, and rights-violating measures premised on an imperative of increasing deportation rates. Instead of focusing on protection, housing, healthcare and education, the Regulation is premised on punitive policies, detention centres, deportation and enforcement.
In August, Turtle Island Solidarity Network hosted a delegation, Unmasking and Dismantling Settler Colonialism. Here, one of its leaders reflects on the importance of community in hosting delegations.
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.