2025-10-13
35 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today the summer camp for teenagers with a bold ambition.
Hi, it's Lucy Hoff here.
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It's a boiling hot day in August and I've just arrived at a summer camp in the Trudos Mountains in Cyprus.
I'm stood outside a building surrounded by pine trees and I can see small groups of children who are huddling around tables and chairs.
A camp leader is welcoming children, smiling and strumming a guitar.
But there is something different about the 40 teenagers gathered here today.
They're all from Israel or occupied Palestine.
and many have been bereaved by the decades-long conflict in the region.
What made you decide to come to the camp?
To tell our story to the world and let them know the pain we are in.
To speak about our life in West Bank under attribution, to speak about peace,
and I want to have freedom to go to anywhere in this life.
I live in Israel.
You don't meet Palestinians in Israel, not from the West Bank.
can't come there and they won't be welcomed if they tried.
They've come here to try to make a difference and they know it might not be easy.