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by Reem Shamia<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/851/1*zbDbhkrKq2MpYMNAUn3LGA.jpeg" /></figure>Tell me about your and your family’s connection with Palestine. For example, what part of Palestine are you from, both yourself and your family going back further.Hi, I am Reem from Palestine, to be spacific Gaza, I have never left Palestine at the whole of my life, so Palestine is the world to me!My grandfather is from Hamama town. He displaced from his home at Al Nakba, and build a beautiful home in Gaza. He married my grandmother and had a lot of children. He died from Cancer while he waiting my father born, he died while he was dreaming of return to Hamama. He kept the key to his old home until his death and my grandmother kept it after his death.If you spent part of your life in Palestine, tell me about your personal experiences there. What are your strongest memories, both good and bad? I’m curious about your education, your family life, community life, religion, and anything else you’d like to share.I can consider us as a family environment, interconnected with each other, interconnected with our neighbors. If my mother or grandmother made a delicious dish, she would certainly send part of it to our neighbors. In Palestine, if you greeted someone on your way, he would surely invite you to have lunch or to drink tea.If there is joy, the whole family and neighbors will participate in it, but in the event of a death, you will find all the neighbors and relatives coming to console you, stand with you, and make food for you.Palestinian women love embroidery, which is one of our most important heritage. I even learned it when I was 12 years old.What were/are some of the most difficult things you’ve had to deal with or currently have to deal with?There is another article I wrote about the war life, which you can read <a href="https://medium.com/i-am-palestine/the-war-life-54dd9c2241f0">here</a>.What are you most proud of as a Palestinian person?Palestinian person is a very loyal person. We loyal to our land and every chance we had we talked about it, and everyone of us dream about Palestine from river to sea!And another thing I want to add, we like learning. The illiteracy rates in Palestine are among the lowest rates in the world (2.2% among individuals 15 years or more) for the year 2022.What’s one thing you’d like people to know about Palestinians?Everyone here is generous, and loves to honor his guest.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Tl9saKfpJpVS7VcOAMuw1w.jpeg" /></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=5a50fdd3a7df" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://medium.com/i-am-palestine/my-life-in-gaza-5a50fdd3a7df">My Life in Gaza</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/i-am-palestine">I am Palestine</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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content: by Reem Shamia<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/851/1*zbDbhkrKq2MpYMNAUn3LGA.jpeg"
 /></figure>Tell me about your and your family’s connection with Palestine.
 For example, what part of Palestine are you from, both yourself and your family
 going back further.Hi, I am Reem from Palestine, to be spacific
 Gaza, I have never left Palestine at the whole of my life, so Palestine is the world
 to me!My grandfather is from Hamama town. He displaced from his home at Al
 Nakba, and build a beautiful home in Gaza. He married my grandmother and had a lot
 of children. He died from Cancer while he waiting my father born, he died while
 he was dreaming of return to Hamama. He kept the key to his old home until his death
 and my grandmother kept it after his death.If you spent part
 of your life in Palestine, tell me about your personal experiences there. What are
 your strongest memories, both good and bad? I’m curious about your education, your
 family life, community life, religion, and anything else you’d like to share.I
 can consider us as a family environment, interconnected with each other, interconnected
 with our neighbors. If my mother or grandmother made a delicious dish, she would
 certainly send part of it to our neighbors. In Palestine, if you greeted someone
 on your way, he would surely invite you to have lunch or to drink tea.If
 there is joy, the whole family and neighbors will participate in it, but in the
 event of a death, you will find all the neighbors and relatives coming to console
 you, stand with you, and make food for you.Palestinian women love embroidery,
 which is one of our most important heritage. I even learned it when I was 12 years old.What
 were/are some of the most difficult things you’ve had to deal with or currently
 have to deal with?There is another article I wrote about the
 war life, which you can read <a href="https://medium.com/i-am-palestine/the-war-life-54dd9c2241f0">here</a>.What
 are you most proud of as a Palestinian person?Palestinian person
 is a very loyal person. We loyal to our land and every chance we had we talked about
 it, and everyone of us dream about Palestine from river to sea!And another
 thing I want to add, we like learning. The illiteracy rates in Palestine are among
 the lowest rates in the world (2.2% among individuals 15 years or more) for the
 year 2022.What’s one thing you’d like people to know about Palestinians?Everyone
 here is generous, and loves to honor his guest.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Tl9saKfpJpVS7VcOAMuw1w.jpeg"
 /></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=5a50fdd3a7df"
 width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://medium.com/i-am-palestine/my-life-in-gaza-5a50fdd3a7df">My
 Life in Gaza</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/i-am-palestine">I
 am Palestine</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting
 and responding to this story.

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