A message from the Head of Abu Dis Boys' School

29th Dec 08

The administration of Abu Dis school , teachers and students send the most beautiful greetings to you

Yesterday 28/12/2008 was a black day and difficult for the teachers and students at the School of Abu Dis and the people of the town of Abu Dis, because of the students attacked and arrested by the Israeli occupation army.

Students arrested:
1) Odi Khaled Mohsen, from eleventh grade.

Students also injured :
1) Ahmed Mustafa Ireqat, from eleventh grade.
2) Hammam Mohamed Muhsin, from twelfth grade, and severe injuries and is now in hospital and his condition is difficult. [See report below]


Yesterday we saw demonstrations in every country in the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people, as we have seen demonstrations in London ... All thanks and respect to you and to all those involved in support of the Palestinian people against Israeli aggression on Gaza.

HAMAM MOHAMMED MOHSEN (12th grade at Abu Dis Boys' School)

Report from Abu Dis 29th December 2008

Hamam Mohammed Mohsen 17 years old was shot in Abu Dis yesterday by Israeli soldiers. He was on a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli massacre in Gaza.

According to eye-witnesses, Hamam was shot in the middle of the street near the Water Society. An Israeli soldier who was hiding behind Abdullah Awad's shop shot him from a distance of 2 metres. Hamam was hit with three bullets before he fell down in the middle of the street no body was allowed to reach him. Two soldiers pulled Hamam's body and put him near one of the shops. He was bleeding till the ambulance arrived after 20 minutes. At first the soldiers refused to allow the Doctors of the ambulance to help him and they were not able to move him from the ground until they had been there for 40 minutes.

They took him to AlMaqased Hospital where he had a 10 hours surgery last night. There were two robber bullets in his brain and anther one was in his face. The surgery last night was just to clean the brain because there was also pieces of his skull smashed and they entered the brain. Because he was shot from so close, even if they were rubber bullets they were deadly.

Hamam who was supposed to start his tawjehi test exams today is now lying in the hospital with a very little hope to survive and even if he does, according to his doctor he will never speak, think or move again because the bullets destroyed most of his brain.

Today in the morning Hamam's father and mother managed to reach the hospital and they are still there waiting for any sign of life in their son. His class room friends have refusd to start their exams with out him. There is a general strike in Abu Dis as well as all the West Bank and things are getting worse.

Hampstead Staff Social for Abu Dis Boys' School

On 5th December, Hampstead School staff had a social to raise money for Abu Dis Boys' School. There were craft stalls and information and food for sale and over three hundred pounds were raised.

These will be used to help to buy a table-tennis table for the school in Abu Dis and keep the internet connection going there. (A note to people in Camden ... because of the fall in the value of the pound, we will still need more money to see this through to the end of the year)

Many thanks to Helen Saunders and to Rafeef for their hard work in making it happen.

Abu Dis teacher visit October 08

This is Abdullah, the English teacher from Abu Dis Boys' School, on a visit to London in October 2008.

EID MUBARAK

Kul am w intum bekhair

Greetings for Eid to all our friends in Abu Dis School
from the teachers and students at Hampstead School

Walking round Abu Dis

This is us walking in Abu Dis.

This is a new house
This is the youth club. We play football

THis is sheeps in the street we have lots of sheeps

Abu Dis places

We were hungry and so we ate falafel. Mr Ross told us to hurry up. They also have good coffee here.

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This is our friends cafe

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THis isme and a picture of a martyr.

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THis is my shop. I work in the shop after school.

The Separation Wall in Abu Dis

Eshaq abed anis

This is the wall and the picture is of Al Aqsa Mosque. We can not visit the mosque because of the wall.

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This is Abu DIs. This picture is of the separation wall. It is very long! My name is Hamam Mohammad Ashak

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The wall in Abu Dis My name is hussam. The wall is very big. It stops us from going to Jerusalem. We have family we can't see. We wish we could push it over!
Picture 009

This is a picture of the wall. Our land is getting smaller.

Thank you for the internet

dearhampstead,school,my nem ishussam.thank you for intanetet is gret, this is apicture ofme.

A picture of me

mai name is waled
hawar yuo
thankyuo for the anternet
i like going to australia
thas is bechetor me

I like to play football

hay?
minem is eshaq

haw are you?

im student in abu des school
iliek ple fotbul (I like to play football)

rel madred is my fefaret tem
fram abu des

Please send us your pictures

he my neam is tarek. dear hampstead school thank you for present of money to our school and for the entarnet. this (picture) for my and for the dabca. the dabca is a samth for our (dance). bleas send for as your picturerstarek

Letter to Hampstead (5)

Dear Hampstead,

How are you? Did you have a nice weekend?

This weekend I played football, swam and practised long jump. The weather was good.

Abdel Rahman Abed Rabbo

Letter to Hampstead (4)

Dear Hampstead,

How are you? Did you have a nice weekend?

This weekend I played football everyday and ate Makluba. It was delicious and very tasty.

Eshaq Abu Fseesiyeh

Letter to Hampstead (3)

Dear Hampstead School,

How are you? Did you have a nice weekend?

This weekend I played table tennis and went to a café with friends. The weather was good.

From Nadeem Khalil Abu Hilal

Letter to Hampstead (2)

Dear Hampstead School,

How are you? Did you have a nice weekend?

This weekend I did not do anything!

From Atta Mousa Halabiyeh

Letter to Hampstead (1)

Dear students at Hampstead School,

How are you? Did you have a nice weekend?

This weekend I played football, swam and practised long jump.

What did you do?

Mohammad Darwish

Abu Dis boys at school

"Simon says, put your hands on your knees..."

Abu Dis boys during a PE lesson.


One group of boys learning English.



Working hard.





We were practising facial expressions - happy, sad, surprised!

Abu Dis Boys’ School

We are students at Abu Dis Boys’ School. Our names are Nadeem, Aba and Abed. These are some pictures of our school.

This is the Headteacher of Abu Dis Boys’ School. He is nice but also strict.

This is the bottom floor of ADBS.

This is a picture of boys in a class.

Well done

It is really great news that Hampstead School students raised the money for Abu Dis Boys' School to have equipment to help with communication between the two. Already the money has bought a scanner + fax and a data projector, and currently the internet is being put into the Boys' School so this blog should come into action properly very soon.
Here is a picture of some boys from Abu Dis doing dabkeh (traditional dance) on the stage at Hampstead School last summer(2007). We hope that more young people from Abu Dis will come to Camden this year to take part in a youth festival on 22nd June 2008.

Welcome Ahellan wa sahellan

We twinned with Abu Dis Boys School in November 2007. I visited the school in October at half term and the Head Mr Abukhalil visited Hampstead School in November .

We look forward to students and staff at the school adding to this blog. We hope to work on joint projects and have student and staff exchanges.