This is me infront of the wall of apartheid.
I went there to witness the harsh truth that confronts us. Take a look at the Palestinian symbols drawn, the Palestinian flag, and the names of martyrs and prisoners. All of this is done so that we can remember and remind ourselves that the occupation attempts to control our reality and murder us, but we will never forget and will continue to resist. Even if this wall were built to keep us from fighting, we would do it through our pencils and paintings.
I wrote “the wall is the first thing you see” as when you enter Abu Disa my town, which is all surrounded by the wall, you will see the wall everywhere.
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?
