Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, blocking its entrance and preventing residents from entering or leaving the town

Ihab Hassan

@IhabHassane

 

BREAKING: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, blocking its entrance and preventing residents from entering or leaving the town.  https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1979953695962874182

William Dalrymple

 

@DalrympleWill

 

I've spent time in the wonderful Christian village of Taybeh on the West Bank, which was again attacked by Israeli Settlers this weekend. This was my report for @nybooks : Disappearing Christians | William Dalrymple | The New York Review of Books https://share.google/pUYAPvG2zDRkmf

September 25, 2003 issue 

Disappearing Christians

William Dalrymple

 

“The first thing that you notice about Taybeh as you drive in is that the village is full of churches: it is in fact one of the last villages around here still dominated by Palestinian Christians.”

Taybeh is a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, ten miles northwest of Jerusalem. The farmhouses that you pass on the road there, the domes of the abandoned caravanserai, the minarets of Ottoman mosques—all are built of honey-colored limestone which changes tone according to the color of the sky. Shepherd boys lead their flocks down steep olive slopes into the strip fields of the valleys; it could almost be Tuscany. Only the concrete phalanx of fast-expanding Israeli settlements on the hilltops reminds you where you are, and brings you back to the tensions and violence that are inescapable here. With their towering cranes and half-built apartment blocks and long lines of solar panels glinting on their roofs, the settlements are surrounded by swarms of yellow bulldozers ripping through the ancient landscape. At the settlement gates sit nests of razor wire, the fortified emplacements of the Israeli army.  https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/09/25/disappearing-christians/

 

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East

by William Dalrymple (Author) 

 

William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps

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