耶路撒冷，9月25日电——在被占领的约旦河西岸城市希伯伦郊区，一位巴勒斯坦妇女将自家住宅改建成艺术中心，让孩子们通过绘画来处理他们遭遇定居者暴力和以色列军队突袭的经历。
JERUSALEM, Sept 25 - On the outskirts of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian woman has transformed her home into an art centre where children use drawing to process their experiences of settler violence and Israeli military raids.
艺术家萨拉·阿布·马迪表示，她于2020年创立了这个名为“Rommana”（阿拉伯语意为石榴）的中心，旨在给当地孩子们一个表达感受、讲述经历的场所。
Artist Sarah Abu Madi says she founded the centre - Rommana, meaning pomegranate in Arabic - in 2020 to give local children a place to express their feelings and talk about what they had experienced.
随着以色列定居者暴力事件近年激增，且犹太人定居点在该领土大幅扩张，该中心的工作变得更加紧迫。
The centre's work has taken on greater urgency as violence by Israeli settlers has surged in recent years amid a major expansion of Jewish settlements in the territory.
阿布·马迪说：“如果定居者或士兵做了什么，我们会问：‘那让你感觉如何？让你想到了什么？对你有什么影响？’如果家里遭到突袭，我们会问：‘那让你感觉如何？你怎么看？有什么影响？你希望会有什么？’” 本周，孩子们被要求描绘对他们最重要的事物。10岁的塔利娅·萨巴赫画了一幅鸟儿从笼中飞出的画，说这代表自由。萨巴赫说：“我觉得自由是生活中最重要的东西。”
"If a settler or a soldier does something, we ask: 'How did that make you feel? What did it make you think about? How does that affect you?'," Abu Madi said. "If there is a raid on a home, we ask: 'What did that make you feel? What do you think? How does that affect you? What do you wish there would be?'." This week, the children were asked to sketch the things most important to them. Talia Sabah, 10, drew a picture of birds flying from a cage, saying it represented freedom. "I feel freedom is the most important thing in life," Sabah said.
“我希望军队不再介入我们的生活，能有自由，我们可以随心所欲地生活。”
"I wish the military would stop being in our lives and there would be freedom, and we could do what we want with life."
“艺术创造了一个空间，告诉他们：你们可以做梦” 以色列于1967年占领约旦河西岸，此后该领土一直处于以色列军事占领之下。数十万以色列犹太定居者迁入该领土，在总理内塔尼亚胡政府领导下，定居点扩张迅速加速。
'ART CREATES A SPACE THAT TELLS THEM: YOU CAN DREAM' Israel captured the West Bank in 1967 and since then the territory has been under Israeli military occupation. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jewish settlers have moved to the territory, with settlement expansion accelerating rapidly under the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
联合国和大多数国家认为，根据管辖军事占领的国际法，这些定居点属于非法。以色列对这一解释持异议，称该领土地位有争议。
The United Nations and most countries regard the settlements as illegal under international law governing military occupations. Israel disputes that interpretation and says the territory's status is disputed.
根据阿布·马迪的说法，罗姆纳工作室位于瓦迪·阿勒萨门，这是希伯伦的一个街区，被六个军事检查站与城市其他部分隔离开来。该地区频繁遭遇军事突袭，以及来自附近以色列定居点和定居前哨的入侵。
The Rommana studio is located in Wadi Al-Samen, a Hebron quarter isolated from the rest of the city by six military checkpoints, according to Abu Madi. The area sees frequent military raids as well as incursions from nearby Israeli settlements and settler outposts.
孩子们谈论与以色列定居者和士兵的遭遇时，表现出了一种不符合他们年龄的熟稔。"我外公在山里有地，但定居者在那里建立了定居点，任何上山的人都会被逮捕，"11岁的卡拉姆·萨巴说。
Children spoke about encounters with Israeli settlers and soldiers with a familiarity unusual for children their age. "My grandfather on my mother's side owns land in the mountains, but the settlers established a settlement there, and anyone who goes up to the mountain gets arrested," said Karam Sabah, 11.
罗姆纳刚开张时，只是在一个旧储藏室的地板上铺了几块地毯。如今，孩子们围坐在矮塑料桌旁，身边是他们参与绘制的彩色壁画。
When Rommana first opened, it consisted of a few carpets laid on the floor of an old storage room. Today, children sit around low plastic tables beside colourful murals they helped paint.
阿布·马迪说，他们的作品已开始走出约旦河西岸，曾在加拿大举办过一场展览，另一场计划在墨西哥举办。
Their artwork has begun travelling beyond the West Bank, with one exhibition held in Canada and another planned in Mexico, Abu Madi said.
她说，约有600名儿童来中心参加活动。她的目标是扩大项目规模，让居住在该社区的所有3000名儿童都能参与。
Around 600 children attend the centre, she said. Her goal is to expand the project so that all 3,000 children living in the neighbourhood can take part.
孩子们的一幅画描绘了三个孩子骑在长翅膀的马背上，代表着能够自由飞翔、不再被困在检查站后面的梦想。"艺术还创造了一个空间，告诉他们：你们可以做梦。你们可以想象并建构一个不同于你们正在经历的现实，"阿布·马迪说。
One of the paintings by the children showed three children sitting on the back of a winged horse, representing a dream of being able to fly freely, no longer trapped behind checkpoints. "Art also creates a space that tells them: you can dream. You can imagine and build a reality different from the one you're living in," said Abu Madi.