KC Native Joe
Carr Working for Peace in the West Bank
CPT Protects Palestinian Children from Settler
Attacks
Joe
Carr, a young peace activist from Kansas City, signed up with a Christian
Peacemaker Team (CPT). After lengthy training in non-violent conflict
resolution Joe arrived in Hebron to work with local Palestinians. (Photo:
CPTers walk Palestinian children to school past Ma'an outpost.)
From his August 15, 2005 report: Yesterday, I accompanied a shepherd from
Al-Mufakra, we’ll call him Abu Mohammad. Abu Mohammad has suffered immensely
from the poison settlers put on the land. Last April and March, Israeli
settlers spread barley seeds coated with rat poison on five acres of
Palestinian land they are trying to steal. At least 57 adult sheep and 46
new-born sheep have died from the poison, and the long-term environmental
effects are yet to be determined... read full report