Gandhi Tour of Israel & Palestine
Friday, August 27, 2004
 






Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians attended the rally in Abu Dis today.

ABU DIS

Arun Gandhi gave a speech to thousands at the Abu Dis rally.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) gives the peace sign to Gandhi and members of his delegation at a meeting in his Abu Dis office prior to the rally.


A young Palestinian girl holds up one of the posters advertising the week's event at the rally in Abu Dis

After the rally, people were invited to symbolically hit a hammer against the wall.

Pete (top left), an American from Alaska gives wall climbing lessons on the 8-meter-high wall in Abu Dis during the rally there.


Dr. Tawfiq Nasser, Director of the Lutheran World Federation's Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives, briefed Gandhi and the delegation on problems of medical access caused by the occupation and gave a tour of the hospital.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Munib A. Younan, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan, spoke to Gandhi and the delegation at Augusta Victoria hospital and offered a blessing for the success of the mission.

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