Mariam Barghouti explores how the Israeli occupation is transforming the landscapes and soundscapes of the West Bank, and the silence left in its wake.
The Israeli occupation doesn’t just happen through laws, military checkpoints, army raids and expanding settlements; it also seeps into and transforms our entire sensory world.
On a drive from Jenin, in the north of the West Bank, to Ramallah, in the centre, I had a jarring realization of how much the Palestinian landscape had changed.
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