Rainbow over Shu‘fat Refugee Camp

A rainbow stretches across the sky above the Shu‘fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem and the surrounding hills, briefly softening a landscape marked by the concrete path of Israel’s Separation Wall, which slashes through Palestinian lands and communities. The scene juxtaposes a momentary universal natural phenomenon with an enduring man-made structure that has come to define and constrain mobility, access, and daily life for many Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank.