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The Encampments | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer
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3/16/2025
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I was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus in Syria.
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My family's history in Palestine actually goes back to as long as my grandparent could trace it.
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They lived in a very small village right next to Tiberias. Mostly they were farmers.
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My grandmother, she used to tell us that she had Jewish neighbors.
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They would share a piece of land where they would farm it. Tiberias was one of the first
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cities that the Zionists targeted in 1948 with ethnic cleansing.
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In April 1948, a month before the Nakba, the Zionist militias, they burned one of their
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villages. When they heard the news about it, they had to leave immediately. Some of the men
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went to fight. Big families, they had to go to Syria. My grandmother, she was pregnant at that
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time. She had to walk 40 miles. She gave birth on the way. When they arrived in the refugee camp,
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they thought it's just a matter of days until they would go back. They did not want to be killed
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because they heard about the horror stories across Tiberias. My dad was born in a tent.
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His family lived in that tent until like mid-70s when they upgraded to small structures.
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In the 90s, they finally kind of like had concrete buildings. To us, it was always a temporary home
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until we go back to Palestine. That's why very few families actually invested in their houses.
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Not necessarily because they don't have the means, but because investing more in these houses
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means that they may forget Palestine.
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