Middle East witness

Quakers live alongside Palestinians in an international programme providing protection by presence. After four years away, Ann Wright went back to the Occupied Palestinian Territory as an ecumenical accompanier, a project of the World Council of Churches o

by Ann Wright 1st October 2009

I can’t believe I’m here again, four years after my last stint in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Much has changed in my own life in four years; most importantly I have three new grandchildren. Yet the occupation is still both depressingly the same and, even more depressingly, changed by hi-tech ‘improvements’.