Zack Sabella

Zack Sabella is a 22-year old Palestinian who was born in Jerusalem. Recently, Zack returned from a speaking tour around Australia, invited by the National Council of Churches in Australia, to raise the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and share his own personal experience of growing up under occupation. Zack attended university in the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzilya as part of his belief that social interaction between Palestinians and Israelis should replace social isolation and segregation. Currently, Zack works in the West Bank city of Ramallah and everyday he passes through three routine Israeli checkpoints before he reaches his office. He contributed this article to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from Palestine.