A tent school in Khirbet Tana, a village in the Jordan Valley. The entire village has been demolished by the Israeli army seven times, since 2005. Water is cut off. Vehicles have been confiscated. The school is now the only standing building and has been rebuilt as a tent by an NGO.

Bethlehem 5 am. Every day about 4000 Palestinians have to go through the military checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. It can take several hours to cross .  "Commuters" often have to get up at 2 am to be in Jerusalem at 7 am.

Roof fence over the Old City of Hebron, to protect Palestinians on street level from being hit by litter, stones and even bottles containing urin, thrown at them from the Israeli settlers.

An outpost of the settlement of Itamar, seen through binoculars from the neighboring Palestinian village, Yanoun.

Bus station. Ramallah.

The controversial Israeli settlement Har Homa (background) built on land owned by villagers from the Palestinian town Beit Sahour (foreground).

The Wall goes all the way in to the core of Bethlehem; it creates poverty and traumas, as it steals land and changes the demography. This military construction zigzags in between houses and along roads in Bethlehem. The route of The Wall and the regime of access and movability it imposes on Palestinians have been deemed contrary to international law by the International Court of Justice.

The Wall surrounds Qalqiliya on all four sides of the city. The agricultural land that belongs to the population of the city is not even possible to see any longer. The land is only accessible through agricultural gates that are controlled by the Israeli military, and its strict regime of controlling access and movability in the West Bank. Qalqiliya has the highest unemployement rate in the West Bank.

A Bedouin boy overlooking the construction of the Israeli Carmel settlement on his village’s land. Moving civilians into occupied territory is a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention.

Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Most of the buildings here have a standing demolition order, the municipality wants to clear the area and build a park for recreational purpose. Since 2000 more than 1100 Palestinian homes have been demolished in East Jerusalem. Palestinians build illegally because it’s almost impossible for them to obtain a building permit in Jerusalem. They either have to build illegally, or move out of the city. The estimated number of outstanding demolitions are up to 20 000.

Nablus

Hebron is the only city in the West Bank where settlers have moved in to the city center. The often violent and extreme fundamentalist settlers there, are protected by somewhere between 1500 and 2000 Israeli soldiers. The estimated numbers of settlers in Hebron is 400 to 600.

Many of the streets in the Old City of Hebron have been completely shut for the Palestinian residents, and only Israeli settlers can access them. There are 113 roadblocks, closures and checkpoints put up by the Israeli military in the Old City of Hebron.

A Palestinian boy hitching a ride away from the weekly demonstration against the Wall, that is being built on land owned by the villagers of Bil’in.

Demonstrators running away from tear gas at a weekly demonstration against the Wall in the village of Bil’in. Palestinians, internationals and Israelis participate in this demonstration every Friday. The Wall (shaped as a fence) seen in the background is built on land owned by the villagers of Bil’in.

A boy hiding from the tear gas and sound grenades in Bil’in. 36,4% of minors in the West Bank suffers from post-traumatic stress disorders.

A young couple looking at an hippo in the Zoo in Qalqiliya.

The Israeli settlement, Beit Hahoshen (the building with the flag), on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian man who allegedly sold the property to the settler organization Elad, possibly via middlemen was brutally killed a few weeks later.

Since 2001 Israel through its military and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza has uprooted, burnt and destroyed more than 548 000 olive trees that belongs to Palestinians. The uprooting of the ancient olive trees, as a byproduct of war, has had tremendous effects on the Palestinian agriculture, economy, and identity.

Palestinian home in Hebron protected with a cage of chicken wire from settlers across the road.

Aida refugee camp, in Bethlehem. About 4,7 million Palestinians are considered refugees by the UN. Many of these people live in camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. There is about 11 million Palestinians in the World, only about 3,5 million resides in The West Bank and Gaza.

Abandoned Palestinian home in a street in Hebron where only Israeli settlers are allowed to stay.

A caged entrance to a Palestinian school in Hebron. The cage is there to protect the children from settlers. It is not uncommon that Palestinian children are being escorted back and forth from school by volunteers from international NGOs.

Boy crossing the road during heavy rainfall.

Palestinian folk dance, Dabke is a very popular leisure activity amongst Palestinian youth. The symbolism of a Palestinian national folk dance is immense.