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CAN YOU SEE ME?
Hanadi (age 15) holds her identification card, required in the ‘Seam Zone’ between the Israeli barrier wall and the West Bank’s internationally-recognized border with the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Residents of the zone need special permits and are often detained at military checkpoints. Children must also pass a checkpoint to go to school. “I feel like I’m in prison,” said Hanadi.
Occupied Palestinian Territory 2007 ©UNICEF/ Kate Brooks
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumbs and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Egyptian Muslims and Christians raise a copy of the Quran and a cross in Shubra district of Cairo, Egypt, to protest against the terrorist attack on a church in Alexandria. A bomb exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged from a New Year’s Mass, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly 80. AHMED ALI — AP
i used to pass by that church almost everyday when i went to egypt 2 years ago. when that church was bombed, it hit home hard.