Four young people from Ramallah in Palestine told the stories of their lives growing up under Israeli occupation, at a meeting in the Project Arts Centre in Dublin last Tuesday, 13 August, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Committee. They were stories to stir your heart to rage.
The students are a young people's delegation from Palestine, who came to take part in the Belfast Festival's Palestinian Day last week.
They told their stories, stories of displacement, of refugee camps, of curfews, of attacks on their homes by Apache helicopters, of the occupation of their own houses by Israeli military. They were the stories of tanks occupying their streets; of Israeli 'snipers' firing indiscriminately; of checkpoints to protect Israeli settlements, which had become 'killing points' through which schoolchildren had to pass.
They were the stories of fear, of brutality, of life with nothing, because the Israelis wanted to force the Palestinians out of their land. "What future do you see for yourselves?" someone asked. "I hope to see a future," 15-year-old Hanine Al-Khairi replied.
On Wednesday morning, the Palestinian delegation visited Leinster House, where they weer welcomed by Sinn Féin TD Aengus ó Snodaigh (pictured).
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