War and Food in Bethlehem: Strangers Who Show Love

Photo by Jordy Meow from Unsplash

Back in 2002, I lived in the West Bank to keep a school open during the Second Intifada, because I believed in civil society.

The school that I taught at had multiple locations, one in Ramallah, one in East Jerusalem, and one in Bethlehem.

When the Israeli army encircled Ramallah, I was confined for around twenty-eight days under shelling and bombing…