in the West Bank with the aim to stop the violence. And although the violence did decrease significantly over time, the checkpoints made life nearly intolerable for everyday Palestinians like Salman and her family.
"I have family in Jerusalem and Israel. But, we don't get the chance to see each other because of the restrictions on movement," Salman said."When I don't get a permit to pray in Jerusalem, I don't have the freedom to worship, during Easter or Christmas holiday." have been accused of tormenting and embarrassing Palestinians at checkpoints for unjustifiable reasons.
"I don't feel safe driving around because maybe I'll be attacked by settlers," Salman explained."It's difficult because if I want to travel, I can't go to Tel Aviv — the nearest airport to me— I have to travel to Jordan and use the airport there.""We have a water crisis in the West Bank, we don't have enough water for domestic use because Israel controls the water," she said.
"At that time during the war, my grandparents were forced to leave because they were told they would be killed if they didn't leave their houses," Salman said."So this is how it happened, and they had to leave to go to a safer place, and they couldn't come back after the war because the houses were confiscated and other people were brought in."
At the end of 2020, Salman was hired by the Non-Governmental Organization , and in 2021 she became their first female executive director. In fact, Salman's first time meeting an Israeli who wasn't a soldier or settler was when she went abroad to Germany for a summer program.
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