Trips to Palestine/Israel

Influencer project visits

The Sabeel Jerusalem Influencer project has been taking delegations to East Jerusalem and the West Bank for the past 3 years. The visits give delegates the opportunity to meet with Palestinians living under occupation; to talk with them and hear their lived experience of life under occupation by an apartheid state. Once home delegates use those experiences to effectively advocate and speak out for a just and free Palestine.

If you are interested to learn more about joining a UK delegation then get in touch with Claire

Breaking the Silence monthly tour of Hebron

Breaking the Silence run a tour of Hebron once a month. Hebron is the second largest city in the West Bank and the only Palestinian city with an Israeli settlement in the heart of it. The tour explores the harsh results of the principle of separation and the military presence in the city. 

The tour includes:

• The gravesite of Baruch Goldstein in Kiryat Arba
• Tomb of the Patriarchs square
• The former Wholesale market
• The Shuhada Street
• The four Israeli settlements in Hebron
• A visit with Palestinian non-violent activists in the neighborhood of Tel – Rumeida.
• The new settlement point established 2014, variously called the House of Contention, the House of Peace/Rajabi House and the Brown House.

To sign up click here.

Keep Hope Alive – Olive Tree campaign

The Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI) of the East Jerusalem YMCA and YWCA of Palestine invites interested volunteers to participate at the Olive Planting Program, 6th – 15th of February 2016 in Palestine, as part of its ongoing Olive Tree Campaign.

The program, organized jointly with the Alternative Tourism Group, aims at helping farmers and their families plant / replant olive trees at their pre-attacked or threatened fields, in order to ‘Keep Hope Alive’.

Besides olive planting, the program features introductory presentations about the current situation in Palestine and the effects of the Apartheid Wall and colonies (settlements), tours in the old city of Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, as well as Ramallah, in addition to cultural events and social gatherings.
For more information click here