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Sumud is the strength of the olive tree, with roots deep in the soil.
Sumud is continuing living in Palestine, laughing, enjoying life, falling in love, getting married, having children. Sumud is also continuing your studies outside, to get a diploma, to come back here. Defending values is sumud. Building a house, a beautiful one and thinking that we are here to stay, even when the Israelis are demolishing this house, and then build a new and even more beautiful one than before – that is also sumud. That I am here is sumud. To reclaim that you are a human being and defending your humanity is sumud.
(Abdel Fatah Abu Srour, director of the cultural NGO al-Ruwwad in ‘Aida refugee camp17)
Sumud is the strength of the olive tree, with roots deep in the soil.
Sumud is continuing living in Palestine, laughing, enjoying life, falling in love, getting married, having children. Sumud is also continuing your studies outside, to get a diploma, to come back here. Defending values is sumud. Building a house, a beautiful one and thinking that we are here to stay, even when the Israelis are demolishing this house, and then build a new and even more beautiful one than before – that is also sumud. That I am here is sumud. To reclaim that you are a human being and defending your humanity is sumud.
(Abdel Fatah Abu Srour, director of the cultural NGO al-Ruwwad in ‘Aida refugee camp17)