Personal Narrative: My Life As A Palestinian Child

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Personal narrative

As a child I use to see the beach on TV never got to see it in person, used to see kids playing having fun living their dreams never got to live my own. I grow up in a land where I was treated as a second citizen or even less. My people had orange ID cards, green car tags. the beach belonged only for blue ID card people with yellow car tags. I grow up knowing that the we can't walk or drive on the well braved roads, or have a walk at the public garden or play ground. Well, I'm not so old to have lived through the holocaust, the segregation age and no my land is not South Africa. I'm a Palestinian who was born and grown under the Israeli occupation of my land. Being a Palestinian child was my crime my ethnicity, language

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