Guests from Salem, Deir El Hattab and Jit with their hosts in Kibbutz Revadim
Baha from Salem holds a girl from Kibbutz Revadim, February 8, 2008
Villages Group volunteers deliver medication and supplies to public clinic at Deir El Hattab, summer 2003.
Escorting a child and his mother to medical treatment in Israel. The mother's permit to accompany her son was secured with Villages Group assistance.
discussion with local leaders of the Salem and Deir El Hattab community associations.
Until 2005, Villages Group volunteers could approach Salem and Deir El Hattab only on foot, because the Israeli Army would turn them back at entry checkpoints.
Topographic map of the Salem-Deir El Hattab area. Legends in Hebrew. The two villages are visible somewhat to the left of the map's center. Elon More illegal settlement (not an 'outpost', it's been there since late '70s) is near northern edge. The light-green blob near the eastern edge is a settlers' outpost. Pink areas are private Palestinian lands.
Due to blockades and closures on main roads, local traffic is sometimes restricted to dirt roads. During the rainy 2002-2003 winter these turned into mud.
Villages Group volunteer Erella (center) with the blind children of Jaber Shtayeh, who was murdered by a settler in 2004. She brought them a peace quilt made by American children.
The Salem community association organizes English classes for women. The Villages Group assists the association in finding funding sources.
