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A warning before we start, this episode does include scenes of violence. On the night of December the 12th into December 13th there was an Israeli military operation

in Jeunene camp.

Ahmed Tabassi was in his head. camp. he had them connected to his phone. He saw soldiers ransacking his office, smashing up the theatre,

and graffiti including in one room

drawing a red star of David, which was still there when I visited.

Ahmed Tabassi is the artistic director of the Freedom Theatre.

It's one of the few outposts of Palestinian art and culture based in Janine refugee camp on the edge of Janine City.

The camp is home to tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians living in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

So Ahmed Tabassi had stayed up all night because he speaks English better than anyone in his family and so he wanted to be awake if the soldiers came

through the door. I know I'm the one who have to face it if they come or if they storm

in. They finally burst in at 11 o'clock and he was waiting there and said to them please I speak English

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