Storie dalla Palestina

The topic of Palestine returns to Putignano with the event "Stories from Palestine" organized by APS Onde Culturali and curated by teacher and project coordinator at Pro Terra Sancta Bethlehem, Alessia Morea.

The public meeting scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, July 11 in the Cloister of the Putignano Municipal Library will provide an opportunity to further explore the situation in the Middle East with connections from the Holy Land and video testimonials.

Real-time connections will be made with Miriam Safi, a Belgian-Palestinian resident in the West Bank, and Yara Van Taaffelen, project coordinator at Pro Terra Sancta Bethlehem, with whom it will be possible to engage directly with the situation in Palestine, between the Gaza Strip, where a true genocide is taking place, and the West Bank, where Palestinians are subjected daily to all forms of violence and abuse. In addition to these connections, video testimonies from anthropologist Toine van Teeffelen and Palestinian activist and lawyer Issa Amro will be heard during the evening.

"I thank the newly established and promising association Onde Culturali for thinking of me and giving me complete freedom in organizing the event. Discussing the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the decades-long occupation in Palestine is a duty for each of us. However, we must never forget the voice of the Palestinians, the people who experience abuse and restrictions firsthand, a people who are extremely aware and have been resisting the occupation for years without ever normalizing it. For this reason, I decided to bring with me to Putignano the voices of two dear friends and colleagues, to ensure they speak for themselves, so that the Palestinian cause does not remain just a distant and detached issue but materializes in the voice, testimonies, and presence of those who live daily what we observe on TV or social media," says curator Alessia Morea.

"The situation in Palestine concerns us, and as Onde Culturali, we have decided to do our part by continuing to speak about a true genocide unfolding before our eyes in the Gaza Strip. Even in a small village, we have decided to listen to those who experience firsthand the results of this human defeat. A big thanks to Alessia Morea, without whom we could not have realized this event. I am confident that we will come out even more convinced that War is a terrible defeat and that for Palestine, a solution is necessary, one that we can only reach by listening to the people, far from the palaces, war scenes, and interests of all kinds," says Onde Culturali APS president Luca Laurenzano.

Access to the event will be free and open to all.