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There are over 2 million Palestinian refugees world wide, many which still haven’t accepted the existence of the Israel state, calling it ‘the 1948 territories’.

The Israeli soldiers often enter Ayda camp looking for ‘terrorists’. They are often only met with the ‘Shabab’- young men and boys armed with stones and catapults.

Ayda refugee camp, on the edge of Bethlehem, is home to over 4000 refugees that fled from ethnic cleansing by Israeli forces in 1948.

The Israeli soldiers often enter Ayda camp looking for ‘terrorists’. They are often only met with the ‘Shabab’- young men and boys armed with stones and catapults.

Nidal from the refugee centre asked one boy why he threw stones at soldiers, the boy replied:

“I don’t want them coming to our homes, I can’t talk to them- this is the only way I can speak”