Around Area C - the sixty percent of West Bank land entirely under Israeli military control, where Israelis and Palestinians rub elbows. Above, the owners of the Tura winery by its barrel-shaped tasting room in the Israeli settlement of Rehelim; the spaceship-like theater at the ancient Jewish site of Shiloh, offering a brief movie for busloads of tourists, many Christian; and Palestinian employees removing plastic covers from an export herb crop on an Israeli farm in the Jordan Valley. Below, a double view from the old desert mosque of Nabi Musa off the road between Jerusalem and Jericho; a Palestinian man in front of his home, which is split - half the building is in Area C and half in Area B - meaning different rules for security and building apply; and a Palestinian activist wanting access to a protest/construction site guarded by Israeli soldiers. We explore Area C - in many ways, the heart of the land conflict here - in stories later this week.
-Emily Harris