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The Zionist movement continued to evict and displace Arabs and Palestinians throughout the 1920s-1940s, wiping seventy Arab villages off the map and uprooting more than ten thousand Palestinians and Arabs in the process. This is a brief history of the origins of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs from their lands, 1920-1947

“We no longer know what to save first. Everything is essential and everything is soaked,” Afnan said. Standing was exhausting, sitting was impossible, and nothing warmed the body except movement, but there was not even enough space to move.”

“The psychological trauma is just as real for animals as it is for people. Many cats shake uncontrollably after airstrikes. Some lose their appetite for days. They develop symptoms just like humans under extreme stress.”

When I finally reached the hotel, I felt life again: electricity, lit streets, unlimited water, and all kinds of food … But I could barely eat…The guilt of having all this while my family had nothing was unbearable.