These are olive plantations along the road from Damascus to Amman
Typical Jerusalem house, in Sho'afat in the Eastern part of the town.
Near the Old City, where I buy my fruits and vegetables. A man was making Palestinian type pancakes specifically for the Ramadan month.
A Palestinian mini-van taxi. It costs 3,5 Shekels, about 75 US cents.
The road to Beit Hanina (Arab East Jerusalem) as you see on the sign below. All the other three areas are illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.
View of the UNRWA bus. The bus leaves and arrives every day to take and drop off staff home to the West Bank. This particular photo was taken on a Friday morning, where the bus also takes staff to the Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City to pray.
A Jewish market in West Jerusalem. All the sellers here are Arab Jews from Iraq, Marocco etc. This place is really great with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and the greatest olives in town! On the photo you can see boxes of Jaffa oranges. Jaffa, is a mixed Arab/Israeli town near Tel Aviv and is famous for its delicious oranges.
Here are some fresh fish from the same market.
On the first week of work, I made some field visits to the West Bank to visit our area offices in Ramallah, Nablus in the North and Hebron in the South.
From this photo you can see the wall in the distance which is built to separate the West Bank territory and Israel. It is 8 meters high.
This is a Palestinian village outside Ramallah. The Israeli illegal settlement is very visible surrounding and dominating this little village as the photos shows.
Boy's school.
This is a bus in the same village bringing children back home from school. The painting behind is in the next photo.
The translation of the text is: "Jerusalem is the pride of the Arabs". The drawing behind is the the Al Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem town.
The next field visit was to Nablus in the North of the West Bank, a place famous for olive oil! Here is a photo of a bread maker in Nablus town.
These are the two bottles of olive oil I got from Nablus. Absolutely amazing! Think of the best olive oil you have ever tasted and times that by 10!
Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus, blown up by Israeli Defence Force
A food distribution truck which goes inside the camps to distribute emergency supplies of basic foodstuffs such as oil, pulses or flour
This is a remaining piece of a box which contained refined sunflower oil, donation from the European Community to the Palestinian refugees
View from inside the refugee camp. All basic services such as health and education are provided by UNRWA.
The final visit was to Hebron in the South of the West Bank, unfortunately I did not have my camera with me, however did get some grapes from the garden of the Programme Manager whose family lives in Hebron. Here is the photo:
