"Ahlan wa Sahlan fi filashtin": Welcome to Palestine. Forget a normal world, made up of cities and roads. Here are villages which can be accessed only by narrow streets which then become Tunnel highways that can take only a few, others do not. Here there are walls and barbed wire, which guarantee Israel's security, but cut and territories do not allow ordinary people, peasants and workers, through what was once their land.
Villages where the houses are concrete cubes, while the horizon is always a settlement of the settlers, surrounded by barbed wire, where towering "red roof" of Israeli homes. Access possible only by overcoming insurmountable checkpoints. For the authorities of Israel one of the main "gyms" of Palestinian terrorism is Nablus in the Occupied Territories, which was besieged and shelled during the second Intifada.
We went through the streets of the old town, a fascinating and decaying gut at the same time. Shops and small shops. Taqtouq to sell DVDs and CDs: modernity mingles with what some might still consider the Middle Ages. At Taqtouq has two sons, one named Ali and his side. The other, Hamzeh, now 26 years old.
Of which the last six spent in prison. It was part of the armed resistance of Nablus. E 'was arrested and sentenced to 250 years behind bars. His father is moved: "The whole world knows of Gilad Shalit (the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas in Gaza in 2006, ed), but the more than five million Palestinian prisoners do you know? My son Hamzeh know what? How can you condemn a person to 250 years in prison?! I do not see him ever again, I have to live with this pain.
" Lights out on the evening of Nablus. At Taqtouq in his small record shop in Nablus in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Click to enlarge 
Villages where the houses are concrete cubes, while the horizon is always a settlement of the settlers, surrounded by barbed wire, where towering "red roof" of Israeli homes. Access possible only by overcoming insurmountable checkpoints. For the authorities of Israel one of the main "gyms" of Palestinian terrorism is Nablus in the Occupied Territories, which was besieged and shelled during the second Intifada.
We went through the streets of the old town, a fascinating and decaying gut at the same time. Shops and small shops. Taqtouq to sell DVDs and CDs: modernity mingles with what some might still consider the Middle Ages. At Taqtouq has two sons, one named Ali and his side. The other, Hamzeh, now 26 years old.
Of which the last six spent in prison. It was part of the armed resistance of Nablus. E 'was arrested and sentenced to 250 years behind bars. His father is moved: "The whole world knows of Gilad Shalit (the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas in Gaza in 2006, ed), but the more than five million Palestinian prisoners do you know? My son Hamzeh know what? How can you condemn a person to 250 years in prison?! I do not see him ever again, I have to live with this pain.
" Lights out on the evening of Nablus. At Taqtouq in his small record shop in Nablus in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Click to enlarge
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