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This photoessay shows everydays situations of youth in the parted city of Hebron. Hebron is a city in the Westbanks, that is segregated in two zones. Since 1997 the city is split, in the Zones H1 and H2 , with a lot of Israeli military present. One zone is inhabited by Arabic population, there other is inhabited by Jewish population.
When I visited the city , I tried to focus on the impact of the situation on the youth of both religions. Hebron is often called "openair jail" as military of the IDF is constantly present and fences and checkpoints are part of everyday life.
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They are young
they are innocent.
They are childs like anyone used to be. But they'll feel forever different,
cause they will somehow remember the walls and fences that were built around them.
The walls that kept them from visiting the sea everyday,
making friends in other villages, watching horses racing up the hill. The iron fences that were fragmenting their sky may have become invisible to them, cause it is their everyday reality. Just like starting to work before they are even a teenager.
There are walls and fences that are guarded by men in green, alienated men who might also not want to be there. Men like you and me , that were childs once like them, follow orders. Orders that follow orders, that follow time , that follow laws that go back in time, time that was lost. Time that no one can ever capture or recall again.
Where have we been today,
you and me? Everywhere we went, we were lucky to be free and healthy.
What is the world waiting for?
Who counts the bullets and the gold?
Where will we have been tomorrow, did we try to change something?
"A right delayed is a right denied.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
-2014
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Two kids confused by Israeli Troops
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This is what it looks like when doves cry.
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A Viewpoint over Hebron
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Young boy around 11 guarding Pigeons and Chickens
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Border entrance of Hebron, a split city
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Written Hebrew in the temple which is divided for the two Religions of Arabic Palestinians and Jewish Israelis .
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A peaceful scene that could be a optimistic symbol. Two Israelis peacefully play a colourful guitar in front of a temple where a massacre used to happen in 1994. Goldstein, a jewish settler killed more than 50 people and himself in the buildung behind which is also the tomb of patriarchs. Nowerdays this place is safe as it is under the control of the IDF.
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Two very young boys working on the market smoking hooka.
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Not a real fight, just kids playing.
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A curious boy posing while workin on the market
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Peaceful scenes on the arabic market
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This is the way Hebron is split in most places.
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An overview of the city.
