Mohammed Rahal spent a year and a half displaced after the Israeli army forced him from his home in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Eventually, the Palestinian father bought a new house on the edge of the camp. After months of painstaking work preparing it for his large family, Israeli soldiers came knocking once again.
This time, they told him he had to leave so the house could be used as a military outpost for the next two months.
"Sometimes I worked 20 hours a day preparing the house," Rahal told Middle East Eye. "I was hoping for stability and peace after the hardship of displacement."
The Israeli military's use of civilian homes as military positions has become increasingly common in the occupied West Bank.
