Before the Israeli war on Gaza, climbing was an escape. But after the war started there was nothing that could help us forget what is going on, says Heba Shaheen, president of the Palestine Climbing Association.
As Palestinian climber Faris Abu Gosh encouraged his friend ascending a limestone cliff in the occupied West Bank, the war raging in Gaza momentarily slipped from his mind.
On a recent Saturday, a dozen Palestinian and Italian climbers were geared up in Wadi al Ghul, a West Bank river valley that turns lush and green with winter rain. "It was really hard, and it is still very hard," she added, describing a widespread feeling of insecurity in the occupied West Bank. "Once the climbers were kicked out of the climbing site for military purposes. This stuff actually wasn't happening before," he added.
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