First Day in Palestine/Israel

Said, the group's tour guide, at the Chapel of the Ascension.

 



The Dome of the Rock and the Old City of Jerusalem

 

One of several fields of olive tree stumps that the delegates saw on the eastern edge of Jerusalem. Guides told the delegates that these trees -- on Palestinian land -- had recently been cut down by Israeli settlers in preparation for settlement expansion.

 
     

 

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