You’ve lived your whole life under the Israeli military occupation. Can you tell me what your first memories of that were?
I grew up in one of the toughest times for the country, which was the second Intifada.* I would open my eyes in the morning and see helicopters in the sky, shooting at Palestinian families in their homes. I’d walk to school and there would be a tank in the middle of the road. We used to play in the streets, but suddenly they were full of soldiers. Sometimes the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] would pass by in their tanks and we would have
