Miriam Deprez
Miriam Deprez is an Australian-born freelance journalist and photographer currently based in the occupied West Bank. Her images and articles have been published in several international and national media outlets reporting from Europe, Russia and Cambodia to regional Australia and the Pacific to name but a few places. Miriam’s ongoing photographic work with SafeGround focusses on the legacy of World War Two munitions in the South Pacific and will be exhibited at the UN in Geneva this November.
A thin layer of white stone dust coats nearly every surface in the southernmost West Bank village of Susiya, situated in the South Hebron Hills. The fine layer holds...![A Palestinian man climbs the ladders to cross the separation wall to reach Jerusalem in order to perform the second Friday Prayer of Islamic holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, 25 May, 2018 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180525_2_30556816_34057533.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israel’s “Separation Wall” through the occupied West Bank separates human beings; that much we know. What isn’t so well-known, though, is that it also divides ancient ecological corridors; the...