Diyar is from the remote Palestinian village of Iraq Burin in the West Bank, and is a student in English Literature at Al Najah University in nearby Nablus. His village has suffered particularly harshly from the brutal Israeli military occupation, with denial of access to land and property, restrictions on movement in and out of the village, and deadly military raids.
Here he talks about life under the occupation, including the murder of his 16 yeard old cousin, Muhammad, 2 months previously by the occupying Israeli army.
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