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“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

“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.”