The Work.

In the H2 section of Hebron movement is restricted, street by street, for tens of thousands of Palestinians as settlers slowly take over more land. 

Stuck between an urban settlement and various streets that Palestinians are banned from walking on is a family home. There a deaf mother lives with her son who was born with one arm.

A group of, mostly Israeli, volunteers spent the day helping to clean up the yard, which is their only pathway home. 

This Israeli soldier on patrol asks what this group is doing. The answer: Helping to clean up. 

Settlers have made a habit of throwing garbage and rocks. Many settlers and students visiting the settlements walked by, vocally wondering why these volunteers would be helping "the Arabs". 

The work goes on. 

Settlers are talking, wondering why the volunteers don't "help the Jews instead" and why they would work in the overpowering stench. "Peace, justice, solidarity, humanity" don't seem to clarify it for them. One teenage settler stops to help pick up fallen trash as a volunteer brings it to the dumpster. They are both silent under the beating sun. The volunteer says "תודה" and they each continue on their opposite paths. 

Soldiers are talking, wondering why these fools are bothering them. 

Palestinians are talking where they are allowed.

Somebody smashed the family's sewage pipe. Sewage was pouring out onto the path, their only route home. Volunteers worked together to fix it. 

Next to this Palestinian family's home is a settlement and a street sign. On that street sign are stickers. One of those stickers says "Kahane was right". Kahane was a Jewish supremacist and leader of a terrorist organization.

The sticker below it says "Fun to be Jewish".

This is a traumatic place, but this was a long day that ended in a successful clean up.