It's a bright but wintry morning in the Middle East, a group of Palestinian men and

a few children are picking their way around a scene of destruction, shattered glass, broken

holes and sheets of crumpled corrugated metal. They stand in middle of it all, pointing

and surveying the ruins of their neighborhood. Above them a smoldering hole in the side of

a building reveals what must have been somebody's home. The tables and chairs are now covered

in dust, glass and shards of broken concrete. This was the immediate aftermath of an Israeli

raid on the 26th of January on the Janine refugee camp in the West Bank. At least nine

Palestinians were killed. Seven have been identified by the Israeli forces as militants. One

was an old woman. But in this part of the world, one tragedy inevitably that gets another.

The following night on the Shabbos, a Palestinian attacker killed seven Israelis outside a synagogue

in East Jerusalem. And then, last week, Israeli soldiers killed at least five Palestinian

fighters near Jericho in the occupied West Bank. And then on Friday, a Palestinian drove

into a group of people outside an Israeli settlement, killing two, including a six-year-old,

before being shot dead himself by the police. This lethal escalation brings the total number

of Palestinians killed so far this year to at least 40. And the number of Israelis killed

to nine. It's the deadliest start to a year in a decade and a half. Back in the Janine refugee

camp, a young Palestinian boy runs cheerfully around his house. Baby Tawad is named after his

grandfather, Jawad Bawatna, who was one of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces this year.

One of Jawad's aunts explains proudly that baby Jawad's first word was Qatiba.

Qatiba, the youth resistance fighters.

For the children who grow up here, without hope, surrounded by violence, rage, and revenge,

what kind of future awaits them?

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