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Safe in Canada

December 30th, 2008
posted by Ryan Rowe

Just a quick post to let everybody know that I am at the moment in Montreal, Canada, spending the holidays with my family.

I received a number of emails / text messages asking if I had left Palestine and was out of harm’s way from the current hostile confrontations occuring in the Gaza Strip. Thanks so much for your concern..

Just to clarify, during my time in Palestine, I was located in the West Bank, which is currently the less volatile of the two Palestinian territories.  I stayed mainly in Bethlehem and the surrounding communities of Beit Sahour and Ad Duhesha Refugee Camp (see map below). I was not at any time located in the Gaza Strip.  To my knowledge, you need special permission from the Israel Defence Forces before you can enter the territory (at least through the Israeli border side). 

 

Source: Wikipedia

I was also asked why didn’t I post here my views on the current situation in Gaza.  The reason I have refrained from making any comment is simple because I am still learning about the situation and I don’t want to appear to be taking sides, as I mentioned in my article from December 21, 2008, written while I was at the King Hussein border crossing between Jordan and Israel-controlled West Bank.

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