A group of special Chinese artists on Friday evening gave a
performance in the west bank city of Bethlehem, drawing great
applause from the Palestinian audience.
Invited by Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital of Norway which
chaired a four-day annual international network seminar on
rehabilitation, artists from China Disabled People's Performing Art
Troupe performed at the closing ceremony of the seminar.
The performance reached its climax when some of the troupe's
blind performers sang Palestinian folk songs along with local
Palestinian boys and girls.
The troupe, China's most famous one formed by disabled artists,
was scheduled to perform in Jerusalem on Saturday.
This year's seminar, which is the seventh, draws experts from
China, the United States, Norway, Israel and the Palestinian
territory.
Besides introducing the current situation of rehabilitation in
their countries, the experts discussed how to give psychological
therapy to children who have psychological problems originating
from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
(Xinhua News Agency October 20, 2007)