Each year millions of foreign tourists visit Palestine. According to the Ma’an website, in 2010 an estimated 2.7 million tourists came here, with an estimated 600,000 staying in West Bank hotels in 2012. The type of foreigner in Palestine varies from tourists who just want to visit for 1 or 2 days, to foreigners who live and work here permanently. If you are thinking of Read More …
Many people who visit Palestine wonder before they come how people who are under ‘occupation’ live their daily lives. International people who come to Palestine and stay with a Palestinian host family quickly discover that life here goes on normally, just like in any other country in the world. The only things that differ are that the people are restricted, controlled, and observed. This impacts Read More …
What makes Gaza different from the West Bank? Some people confuse the situation in Gaza with that in the West Bank. Some people also think that what happens in Gaza impacts on life in the West Bank. In fact, the two regions are separate and events in one do not necessarily impact events in the other. Let’s start by saying that both situations are completely Read More …
