International Delegations

International volunteers, interested individuals, journalists and delegations are welcomed to visit the salfit region and IWPS.

In the house, you will have the opportunity to learn about the conditions of the Palestinian villagers under Occupation. You will be able to join the House Team in their non-violent actions more easily and realistically than if you were alone. If you are from an organisation doing specialised work such as research on land issues, olive farming, and industrial development zones, Haris will be a good base for you.

As an international delegation, individual or journalist you will be able to communicate with the outside world from the IWPS house through equipment such as digital still and video cameras, and the related technical equipment for basic media editing and Internet access.

The House will also provide a library with maps, background information, and other learning resources, to be used not only by the International Women's Team but also by visiting volunteer activists, delegations, and local villagers.

29 December 2003

Nine participants from France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland working for different NGOs in Palestine and Israel and guests visiting.

Short briefing about the area and its difficulties for the Palestinian residents before we went off to the following places:

• Azawiya checkpoint under the bridge of highway 5
• Deir Ballut - presentation and tour of the mayor
• Mas'ha - going to the fence and wall and visiting the family which is inprisoned in a one-home-bantustan.

18-25 November 2003

One week delegation of the Women In Black Scotland

Day 1 - arrival

• Arrival and welcome, lunch and orientation
• Visit villager, who is paralyzed after shot by the Israeli Army in his spin and a very nice, inspiring and totally nonviolent, peaceful person
• Go to Revava to see the new outposts
• Evening with IWPS house team

Day 2 - settlements

• Tour with ICAHD on greater Jerusalem - Settlements, settler highways, matrix of control
• Checkpoint watch at Zatara

Day 3 - wall

• Qarawat Bani Hassan and meet head of womens activists
• Mas'ha to see concrete wall and meet one-family-bantustan
• Tour Saniriya, Azun Atme, Beit Amin and Izbet Salman to see route of the wall
• Meeting in Jayous with Abdel Latif from PENGON, walk to gate
• overnight in Kufr Sur

Day 4 - Wall continued

• A-Ras/Jbarra and visit school and children at the gate, meet teachers
• Jbarra visit family living outside of the wall, separated from rest of the village
• Through Jbarra checkpoint to Tulkarem
• Tulkarem: meeting with womens activists

Day 5- Yanoun

• Yanoun + overnighting (see Yanoun report of WIB Scotland - here)

Day 6 - checkpoints

• Early morning to Huwara for checkpoint watch
• Nablus: visiting town
• back to IWPS-House in Haris

Day 7 - Army violence and international accompaniment

• Visit Qarawat Bani Zeit and Kufr Ayn

6-7 September 2003

Code Pink Delegation for two days, 8 participants

Short briefing at IWPS Haris about the wall especially, looking at different maps, before we went off to the following places:

Day one:

• Meeting with a Haris family and look at the settler school being built by the illigal israeli settlement Revava adjacent to their family land.
• Visit the school of A-Ras/Jbarra, talk to teachers, headmaster, kids about the difficulties of the school with half of the pupils living on the other side of the wall. Waiting with the children at the gate, until soldiers open for the pupils and a European TV crew filming the daily obstacle.
• Visit village Irtah, meeting with women, marching to the wall gate and meeting Israeli women on the other side.
• lunch in Anabda
• for overnighting to village Mas'ha: two villagers tell about the Mas'ha peace camp, which was maintained for 4 months on their land outside the wall.

Day two

• Going to the fence and wall and visiting the family which is inprisoned in a one-home-bantustan.
• back to Jerusalem

15 June 2003

Thich Nat Hanh Delegation

Comment of the group:

"What you and the other international organizations are doing is more than important; We should never stay silent against injustice and violence."

12 June 2003

Canada House Delegation

• Welcome at IWPS House in Haris
• Visit of Mas'ha Peace Camp
• Over dirt road to nearby villages, Saniriya, Azun Atme, Beit Amin (Settlements, Wall)
• Following the wall route
• Ras Atiya school and village stuck between the wall and the Green Line
• Jayous
• >Haris

30 December 2002

Delegation of Austrian, Swiss and French representatives

• Yanoun - briefing by members of village council on history of Yanoun with settler violence
• Yasouf - briefing by members of the community on settler violence and the situation in villages in the fields of education, health, land expropriation, water, ...

28 October 2002

Delegation of UK Consulate

• Haris - welcome and briefing about IWPS
• Yasouf - briefing by members of the community on settler violence and the situation in villages in the fields of education, health, land expropriation, water, ...

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