A Quaker woman with firsthand experience of the conflict between Israel and Palestine will visit the Bega Valley to give presentations on the issue.
About eighteen months ago Aletia Dundas returned to Australia from deployment as part of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, where she provided a level of protection to civilians going about their daily life.
“It’s becoming increasingly difficult to maintain such livelihoods, because illegal Israeli settlements have little by little encroached on Palestinian land,” Ms Dundas said.
“Settler highways now disrupt the path that shepherds have traditionally taken their sheep for generations.
“All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and the newer Israeli outposts are also illegal under Israeli law, but they continue to receive government services that their Palestinian neighbouring communities are deprived of.”
Read this propaganda piece by Albert McKnight in the Bega District News.