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Monjed Jadou

‘If UNRWA goes, so do our dreams of returning home’, Palestinians fear

Haleema Damaseh, 70, who lives in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, already has to pay $100 a month for diabetes medication. If UNRWA is forced to cease operations, she is very fearful about other healthcare services i[Monjed Jadou/Al Jazeera]

Aida, Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Among the children playing on the street in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank is 10-year-old Ahmad Damaseh who dreams of becoming a doctor when he grows up.

He belongs to the fourth generation of the Damaseh family to live in this refugee camp since his ancestors fled the Nakba from the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Deir Aban 75 years ago as some 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes to make way for the creation of the state of Israel.

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