July
2004
Diary of an artist in Bethlehem |
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'Ween tent?'-a place to relax and smoke agila in Beit Sahour
- Paul Gent. |
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Leicestershire
artist Paul Gent is spending the summer in Palestine working with
families whilst creating some stunning art - read his diary. |
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Friday
16 July
Pol,
Nathen and I went to Dehaishah refugee camp. I wanted to see Yazen
and say goodbye. Yazen and a couple of other lads gave us a tour
around including their 87-year-old grandfather who still lived in
one of the concrete boxes that the UN built for the refugees in
1948.
He was asleep on the concrete floor and the boys persisted in waking
him. Pol, Nathen and I insisted that it wasn't important.
We went to the martyrs graved yard where about 40-odd Dehaishah
camp men, women and children lay since the intifadah.
Some of the boys brothers and sisters were buried there; others
were in prison, many it seemed as a result of the siege of the Nativity.
Every
wall of Deshaishah camp is a testament to the resistance - in the
form of writing, stencils of the dead, posters of Martyrs and peace
murals, many of them painted by Yazen.
Tank tracks have imprinted the concrete roads where the Israeli
army often have come at night looking for 'terrorists'.
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Gent
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