Palestine Projects
About CPT Palestine
CPT maintains a team in the Palestinian village of at-Tuwani in the southern West Bank.
CPT Palestine:
- Monitors treatment of Palestinians at Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks.
- Intervenes during Israeli military invasions of Palestinian homes.
- Continues regular visits, along with Israeli peace activists, to Palestinian families facing harassment from Israeli settlers
- Provides daily accompaniment for Palestinian children walking to and from school
- Accompanies Palestinian shepherds and farmers to fields where they are exposed to assault by extremist settlers
- Joins Israeli peace groups to replant olive groves destroyed by settlers
- Joins Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in acts of public nonviolent resistance to Israel's construction of a "security wall" which cuts through Palestinian territory.
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Tuwani Project: the School Run
Imagine the scene: a group of children walking to school. Some of the older children are jostling and pushing each other, joking together; the younger ones are walking quietly, hand in hand. It could be a scene from almost anywhere in the world. But this is Palestine, under Israeli military occupation. The children are Palestinian. Two Israeli soldiers walk in front of the small group and an army jeep follows behind. Each school day the Israeli military escorts children, aged six to twelve years old, to school in at-Tuwani. Armed Israeli settlers attack any Palestinian using the public road. The escort began in 2004 after Israeli settler attacks on the children and their international accompaniers received widespread publicity. The military will not allow CPT to walk with the children, but their parents have asked us to monitor the escort from nearby. Despite the military escort, the children's journey to and from school is still dangerous and frightening. [MORE]
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Events
| Title | Start Time: | End Time: |
|---|---|---|
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | July 21, 2009 | August 3, 2009 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | October 6, 2009 | October 19, 2009 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | November 17, 2009 | November 30, 2009 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | January 5, 2010 | January 18, 2010 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation (Reformed Church/Christian Reformed Church) | April 6, 2010 | April 19, 2010 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | May 18, 2010 | May 31, 2010 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | July 20, 2010 | August 2, 2010 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | October 5, 2010 | October 18, 2010 |
| Palestine / Israel Delegation | November 16, 2010 | November 29, 2010 |