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‘I always looked deeply at photographs of the Nakba, searching people’s eyes to understand how they felt’
Mona AlMsaddar

I WAS born to a native father from Gaza, while my mother is a refugee. 

I was the only student in the class who is native in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine’s school in the Maghazi camp. 

I always wonder how it must feel to be a refugee. I think I am a refugee in another context because I cannot return or even freely visit Palestine and its ethnically cleansed villages due to the Israeli ban on return, which is against human rights. 

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