Baroud in Al Jazeera – Palestine: Diary on an UNRWA Kid

• September 24, 2018, 2:52 pm

Maintaining one’s dignity while living a dismal existence in a refugee camp is not an easy feat. My parents fought hard to spare us the daily humiliations that come with living in Nuseirat – Gaza’s largest refugee camp. But when I turned six, and joined the UNRWA-run Nuseirat Elementary School for Boys, there was no escape.

Not only was I a refugee on official United Nations papers, but in practice as well, just like all my peers.

To be a Palestinian refugee means living perpetually in limbo – unable to reclaim what has been lost, the beloved homeland, and unable to fashion an alternative future and a life of freedom, justice, and dignity.

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