“The most popular game for children is ‘Army and Arabs’- they play with sticks as guns, the girls prefer to play this game inside, but the boys like to play outside. They play soldiers, martyrs, prison officers, interrogators, and secret police. My daughter played a collaborator, and a boy was arrested and tortured by police - afterwards the boy got mad with her and beat her up very badly.

The most popular game for children is ‘Army and Arabs’

When the children get bored of this game, they get the real soldiers to chase them. The children have a lot of energy and they express it by throwing stones at soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers come into the camp in their land rovers and call through the speakers “Come on children- let’s play!””

-Salah from the Lagee centre, Ayda Camp