Aletia Dundas will visit Merimbula Uniting Church to share her experience of the conflict in Israel and Palestine later this week.
Aletia is a Quaker and lives in Sydney. From November 2016 to February 2017, she was in the West Bank serving as an Ecumenical Accompanier. The West Bank and Gaza together make up Palestine. Aletia was based in the South Hebron Hills, the most southern part of the West Bank.
On Sunday, 27 May, she will give a presentation about her experiences of life under military occupation as she witnessed it.
In her role, Aletia accompanied children on their walk to school, joined shepherds as they take their sheep to graze, and witnessed vigils and other demonstrations of nonviolent resistance to the occupation. She also monitored military checkpoints.
In an interview with Bega District News, Ms Dundas said that this approach helped protect Palestinian people.
Read the article by Jonathan Foye in Insight News.