orthodoxbrit:

An elderly Palestinian Christian lady lights a candle during mass in the Greek Orthodox Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the West Bank village of Aboud.

This is my personal favourite from this report.

The amazing thing is that this older Generation of Palestinian Christians have lived there longer than the state of Israel has existed. They were once able to travel from Aboud to Jerusalem without fear of being threatened or treated as animals by Guards.

The west bank wall passes through the outskirts of their town and 35 of their olive trees were uprooted to make way for it, they recieved no compensation.

It must be sad to be treated as a second class citizen in your own land and especially when you remember the times before this since the occupying Nation is younger than you are.

(via patrickyadig)