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ITANI RASALANAVHO was deported by Israel recently as he tried to make his way into Palestine and the Occupied Territories for voluntary work. This is how he describes his ordeal.Â
I was going back on a three-month programme in the West Bank, to be based in Hebron. I was going to be doing human rights observations and providing protective presence, which I’ve done before. This was volunteer work I do with the Christian Peacemakers Team, which has eight missions around the world. One of them happens to be the one in the West Bank.
I left OR Tambo on Thursday 6 May, arriving in Addis Ababa and ultimately in Tel Aviv late on Friday afternoon. As soon as I got to the queue for passport checks, I was called to the side by a lady who requested my passport and asked me what I was coming to do. I told her I was coming for a church programme, knowing that if I said I was here for volunteer work, I was just going to be sent back – they don’t want
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