#6 – Q:Witness – Palestine and Israel

Explore the peace and justice work from the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), an international programme coordinated by the World Council of Churches. EAPPI brings people from around the world to the West Bank to serve for 3 months as human rights monitors. We call them Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs). Keith Reeves, an EA from Yorkshire, offers eyewitness accounts of Israeli activists striving for a change and of house demolitions in the West Bank. Teresa Parker leads EAPPI in the UK and Ireland and gives an overview of the successes and challenges over its 15 year history. Find out more: Eyewitnessblogs.com http://www.quaker.org.uk/our-work/international-work/eappi Take action: tell the UK Government to recognise Palestine: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/174181 House demolition data from UNOCHA: http://www.ochaopt.org/content/protection-civilians-report-18-31-october-2016