Amira Abd Elrahim was born in East Jerusalem and has a BA in Business Administration
from Bethlehem University and an MA in Contemporary Arab Studies from Birzeit
University. She was a program officer at Middle East Non-Violence and Democracy
(MEND) and is currently a communication officer at the Belgian Development Agency
(BTC) and a fundraiser at Tawasol.
Whether Palestinians protest violently or nonviolently Israel responds with military
force, so how can the violence end in the Occupied Palestinian Territories without an
end to occupation?