CPTnet
26 April 2011
HEBRON VIDEO: Yusuf’s long walk home from school

 Yusuf is four years old.  He attends the kindergarten just across the landing from the Hebron team’s women’s apartment.  He’s a bright little boy, who interprets in sign language for his deaf mother.  He has congenital physical difficulties: he has no left arm and one leg is significantly shorter than the other.

 On April 20,  a friend and I happened to meet up with Yusuf and his kindergarten teacher as she took him home after class.  They unsuccessfully tried to get through two gates before going through the ladder lady’s house (so named because during first years of the Intifada, when the Israeli military put Hebron’s Old City under curfew, she allowed children of the Old City to cross through her house and then descend on a ladder to the street to get to school.)

Think of a five-year-old boy you know.   Think of all you wish for him.  Then watch this video and wish it for Yusuf too.