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Two months before the genocide began in October 2023, Ouda made a decisive shift. She pursued her dream of fashion designing and launched her own line of clothes, Reno Collection … but as daily life collapsed, her project stopped entirely. “There was no room to think about dreams,” she said. “Only about staying alive.” 

“One day in January, a young boy, Anas, just five years old, came to buy a biscuit. It cost three shekels, but he had only one. After a brief pause, Seba smiled and sold him the biscuit for the single shekel he carried, watching him walk away clutching it with quiet satisfaction.”

“I wake up before sunrise and I don’t stop until night,” she said. “There’s no clean water, and the toilets are dirty and unsafe. There’s no privacy when I bathe or sleep … Temporary toilets in the camps are usually little more than holes in the sand, covered with hanging sheets, and shared by dozens of people.”

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