Remember
where there used to be trees full of clementines, and peaches, and olives here,
remember?” asked five-year-old Zain upon my return to Rafah, after the last war
in 2014. “The soldiers took them,” he explained. Like most farmers, his father
Sami Qudaih cannot afford to buy his family a new home and cultivate land in a
safer part of the Strip. They’re forced to build and rebuild their home, war
after war, on the land from where the eyes can only see the border, and sniper