Conflict continues in war-torn Middle East

Palestinians collect the remains of olive trees bulldozed in April 2003 by the Israeli military in the Gaza strip, occupied since 1967 by Israel. Many of the trees were hundreds of years old. The trunks are often taken to be replanted on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Action by Churches Together (ACT) supports churches and church agencies in the middle east as they work for human and social development and an end to violence. ACT's programs benefit people of all religious traditions.

Listen to Ramzi Zananiri, executive director of the International Christian Committee in Jerusalem, a relief arm of the Middle East Council of Churches, talk about how "the Palestinian people are still imprisoned" despite the road map. 1:36.

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