Ramadan in the Buffer Zone | International Solidarity Movement

The buffer zone is a place of death.  300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead.  To enter the buffer zone is to risk your life, even to come close to it, the Israeli’s shoot farmers, shepherds, scrap collectors, anyone who comes close to the buffer zone is in danger.

 On Aug. 1st Ramadan began and about 30 protesters went to the Buffer Zone to pray. They were fasting and walked in the hot sun. They were able to complete the prayer without interruption of gun fire. It was peaceful and "For a short while, something lived in it, people prayed in it, may justice come soon."

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