From Tel Aviv: Gaza Border Reality Tour

Get a better understanding of the Gaza-Israel conflict. Understand the challenges and the possible solutions.
Leaving by train from Tel Aviv, you will head to the Gaza Border area along with a local Israeli guide. Meet up with the group from Jerusalem and start with a visit to the Erez border crossing, the only place where citizens of Gaza, for business or medical care, can enter Israel. You will talk with either a Gaza resident entering Israel, or one of their Bedouin drivers. Next you will drive along for an overview of the northern Gaza-Israel border region. See southern Israel, from Ashkelon to Sderot, and into northern Gaza - including the border, Beit Hanun, Beit Lahia, Jabalya, and Gaza City.

You will then visit an Israeli border community, Kibbutz Sa’ad. Visit the synagogue there and have a short seminar about the Gaza-Israel conflict. Speak on video by Skype with Gaza City residents. Learn about the history of Gaza, the 1948 and 1967 wars, refugees, the Intifadas, the Oslo Accords, the Disengagement, the 2008, 2012, and 2014 wars, Hamas, Fatah, Egypt relations, the siege and suffering of Gaza’s population, ceasefire talks, and more.

After lunch, drive through the agricultural fields around Nachal Oz, viewing the border and the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City – where weekly ‘Great March of Return’ protests and clashes take place. At the site of the religious Kibbutz, Be’erot Yitzhak, which was destroyed in the 1948 war, you will learn about the Israeli narrative of settlement and sacrifice in the northern Negev. In Sderot, visit the police station with its display of fallen rockets and climb the rooftop of the Hesder Yeshiva to see the rocket sculptures. Visit a “rocket safe” playground and view up-close an Iron Dome rocket defense launcher. You will also visit the Palestinian village of Al-Najd, destroyed in the 1948 war and whose former residents fled to Gaza. Here you will discuss the Palestinian narrative of the 1948 war and the Nakba. The day will wrap up with a visit to Netiv Ha’asara, a ‘moshav’ village on the northern Gaza border, where a local resident will do a presentation about how their community lives with frequent rocket fire. Finally, you will partake in the Paths to Peace art project, placing ceramic tiles on the wall, transforming it from a defensive to a peace wall.

Uygunluğu garanti altına almak için mümkün olan en kısa sürede rezervasyon yapın. Özellikle resmi tatiller veya hafta sonları gibi yoğun sezonda seyahat planlıyorsanız, erken rezervasyon düşünmeye değerdir.

Bu geziyi, gezinin başlangıcından 24 saat öncesine kadar ücretsiz olarak iptal edebilirsiniz. 24 saatten sonra iptal ederseniz veya geziye katılmazsanız, etkinliğin tam fiyatı sizden tahsil edilecektir. Alım veya kalkışta geç kalmak, katılmamak olarak kabul edilecektir.