PHOTOS SECTION
Jerusalem.
John, Sylvie, Jack and elder son Nicolas at Qala’at ibn Maan Castle, overlooking Palmyra, Syria.
On camels, just outside Cairo in 2009. Once the internal unrest in Egypt began, tourism virtually died.
Sylvie and Jack in Cairo in front of street art depicting fallen Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Palestinians in the Old City of Hebron have erected a metal covering to protect themselves from bricks, chairs, rotting chickens and dirty nappies which the settlers throw onto them.
John and his editor, Paul Whittaker, in Hebron. ‘Like Dresden after the bombing,’ said Paul.
Sylvie and Jack having a day out in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers walk through the Palestinian market of the Old City of Hebron.
John joins the Israeli Army for the weekly clash with Palestinians at the wall in Bil’in.
Every Saturday afternoon Israeli soldiers escort settlers, who sometimes destroy Palestinian goods, through the market in Hebron.
Border police check the IDs of Palestinians who want to enter the Old City of Jerusalem for Friday prayers. Males aged five to 50 are sometimes refused entry.
Gaza, 2010: John interviewing Ahmed Yusef, a member of the Hamas executive.
The long walk into Gaza: through Erez Crossing then for one kilometre along this caged corridor.
Gaza 2014: two children stand between a bombed water tower and mosque.
Transporting by donkey a fridge smuggled via a tunnel into Gaza from Egypt.
The wall in Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Palestinians who cannot get a permit sometimes resort to climbing ladders to get into Jerusalem for work.
Jack building a Lego ‘wall of Bethlehem’.
Israeli police demolished the house Mrs Fakhouri’s family lived in for decades.
Police in Jerusalem clash with ultra-orthodox Jews trying to shut down the Mamilla shopping centre car park during the Sabbath.
An elderly Palestinian man asking his Jewish neighbours why they have turned off his water.
John asking the same. They said it was an accident.
Christian Zionists from around the world travelled to the West Bank to celebrate the end of a 10-month settlement freeze.
John with Yehuda Shaul, the founder of Breaking the Silence, a group of more than 1000 current and former Israeli combat soldiers trying to end the occupation.
Palestinians clash with the Israeli Army at the Shuafat refugee camp.
John with settler spokesman David Ha’ivri. He was born in America as David Axelrod and changed his name to David Ha’ivri, meaning David the Hebrew.
Four Palestinian youths appear before an army judge in the Israeli Military Court in the West Bank. Children as young as 12 can be taken from their homes at night and are not permitted to have a parent or lawyer present for questioning.
John talking to fellow Melburnian Mark Regev who moved to Israel and became the spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert talking with John at a dinner in Jerusalem.
Doing research in the West Bank with prominent US journalist Peter Beinart.
On the Jerusalem balcony: (left to right) friend Hamish Wyatt; John; and founders of Military Court Watch Salwa Duaibis and Australian lawyer Gerard Horton.