Under the snipers’ bullets

Khaled Salahad, Al-Alqsa Martyrs' Brigade, with Lilian Pizzichini at Nativity Square, Bethlehem 2002

There is a large, handwritten sign on the fence that lines the road leading from Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport to the West Bank city of Bethlehem. It stands just by the checkpoint, and reads: “You cannot sit on a fence in the Holy Land.” It was the morning of Easter Saturday, and I was on […]