Tahrawi was born in 1922 in al-Masmiyya, which today exists only as a handful of ruins... Its residents fled during the Nakba of 1948, in which about 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland after the creation of Israel.
The key to the Masmiyya house always hung on their wall, wherever they lived, a reminder of everything they had lost. Tahrawi worked as a tailor then ran a small shop, raising generations of a large and loving family.
In a family video filmed a few months before the war, when he was already 100, he is trying to learn how to say I love you in English to his wife. The key to the old house hangs on the wall behind him.
Their stories reflect the deep personal and historical trauma experienced by the families involved, marking the ongoing impact of the conflict on generations of Palestinians.
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