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“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.”

“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.”