From my uncle’s exasperated sighs over olive groves we can no longer reach, to the iron gates the Israeli army has erected at the edge of my village, there is one word we use to cope: ‘aadi’, or, “normal” in Arabic. But this reality is anything but.

Israeli settlers block the main road leading to schools in Khirbet Umm al-Khair, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank, by erecting a fence, hindering students' access to education due to the lack of safe alternative routes. Hebron, West Bank, April 14, 2026. (Photo by Mamoun Wazwaz/ apaimages)From my uncle’s exasperated sighs over olive groves we can no longer reach, to the iron gates the Israeli army has erected at the edge of my village, there is one word we use to cope: ‘aadi’, or, “normal” in Arabic. But this reality is anything but.

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