In November 2012, 16-year-old Ahmad Matar and his friends were practising parkour on a hill in their hometown of Khan Yunis, Gaza when an Israeli bomb landed 500 metres in front of them. The boys happened to catch the destruction on camera, filming as they often did to show their YouTube and Instagram followers what it was like to train parkour in the world’s largest open-air prison. A moment of fleeting joy abruptly stolen by Israeli violence – nothing could have conveyed it better.
Matar’s friends, brave as only children who jump off buildings for fun can be, hardly waited for the dust to settle before running to the site where the explosive had landed, to see the
