During the 20 years I have been involved in research with Palestinians in the occupied territories, accounts of despair and frustration, and at times resignation and hopelessness, have been a constant theme.
As other recent articles in The Conversation have highlighted, the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is dire and it creates enormous levels of despair.
“We have nothing more to lose,” said Ali (not his real name), a newly married man in a West Bank refugee camp, whom I spoke to during my most recent fieldwork in 2023.
