Now is the season for yellow flowers…
This photo, of the remains of the Palestinian village of Lifta on the approach to Jerusalem from the Tel Aviv highway, was taken by the Los Angeles Times’ correspondent Ed Sanders, to illustrate his article, published here, about a controversial Israeli plan to build Israeli housing in what he called “the last intact [though vacant] pre-1948 Palestinian village in Israel. The Israelis, who call the area Mei Naftoah, want to put apartments there, but Palestinians want it preserved as an open-air museum”.
From Machsom Watch, photo taken by Yehudit Levin, farmers after a day’ work, bringing back chamomile from their fields, waiting to be inspected by Israeli soldiers at the Israeli military checkpoint at Habla, in the West Bank:
