This video was shot while visiting Palestinian cities, towns, and camps, where I witnessed both the beauty of Palestine and the violations done by the Israeli occupation.
Music by Shalabi Younis and Ghazal Ghrayeb
My name is Nagham Ayyad, and I am a 20-year-old Palestinian who has grown up watching all of the injustices committed by the occupation against Palestinians. I grew up witnessing the apartheid wall, which surrounds my town; whenever I go, I see it and feel the anguish. We tried to get used to it, but we couldn’t; we tried to paint on it to express our anger; we tried to feel pain on it, but the pain increases every time we see it.
When I was a child, I was asking myself various questions, including, “Why us?” Why are they preventing us from moving on our land? Why can’t I go to Jerusalem? Why can’t I go and see the sea’s beauty? Why can’t I see my aunt in Jerusalem? Why can’t I move freely?
