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Palestinian refugee Samer Hussein (54 years old), born in the German camp, says: "We have lived here for decades. We built these walls brick by brick with the sweat of our brow, and today they tell us that our houses are located inside the airport campus, and that we are forbidden to even repair a roof that leaks rain." In his interview with Al-Akhbar he added: "If they decide to destroy tomorrow, where will we take our families? "The rent in Damascus and its countryside is astronomical, and we can barely make ends meet." In turn, Mrs. Tarfa al-Hassan, a widow who supports three children, states: "(I tried) a few weeks ago to sell part of the house to cover the costs of my son's treatment, but as soon as the plans appeared everything stopped, and no one dared to buy more." Then she paused for a moment before adding: "Our homes have become prisons with no monetary value." There is nothing official that talks about demolition, but we sleep and wake up obsessed with bulldozers, and feel that they could arrive at any moment, without anyone offering us an alternative or fair compensation." As for the young man Khaled Omar (34 years old), who works in free trade inside the camp, he focused on the social and psychological dimensions of the decision and said: "The Germana camp is not just a concrete settlement, but bears the symbolism of continuous refuge and displacement since the disaster in 1948 and the withdrawal in 1967."

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Palestinian refugee Samer Hussein (54 years old), born in the German camp, says: "We have lived here for decades. We built these walls brick by brick with the sweat of our brow, and today they tell us that our houses are located inside the airport campus, and that we are forbidden to even repair a roof that leaks rain." In his interview with Al-Akhbar he added: "If they decide to destroy tomorrow, where will we take our families? "The rent in Damascus and its countryside is astronomical, and we can barely make ends meet." In turn, Mrs. Tarfa al-Hassan, a widow who supports three children, states: "(I tried) a few weeks ago to sell part of the house to cover the costs of my son's treatment, but as soon as the plans appeared everything stopped, and no one dared to buy more." Then she paused for a moment before adding: "Our homes have become prisons with no monetary value." There is nothing official that talks about demolition, but we sleep and wake up obsessed with bulldozers, and feel that they could arrive at any moment, without anyone offering us an alternative or fair compensation." As for the young man Khaled Omar (34 years old), who works in free trade inside the camp, he focused on the social and psychological dimensions of the decision and said: "The Germana camp is not just a concrete settlement, but bears the symbolism of continuous refuge and displacement since the disaster in 1948 and the withdrawal in 1967."

Palestinian refugee Samer Hussein (54 years old), born in the German camp, says: "We have lived here for decades. We built these walls brick by brick with the sweat of our brow, and today they tell us that our houses are located inside the airport campus, and that we are forbidden to even repair a roof that leaks rain." In his interview with Al-Akhbar he added: "If they decide to destroy tomorrow, where will we take our families? "The rent in Damascus and its countryside is astronomical, and we can barely make ends meet." In turn, Mrs. Tarfa al-Hassan, a widow who supports three children, states: "(I tried) a few weeks ago to sell part of the house to cover the costs of my son's treatment, but as soon as the plans appeared everything stopped, and no one dared to buy more." Then she paused for a moment before adding: "Our homes have become prisons with no monetary value." There is nothing official that talks about demolition, but we sleep and wake up obsessed with bulldozers, and feel that they could arrive at any moment, without anyone offering us an alternative or fair compensation." As for the young man Khaled Omar (34 years old), who works in free trade inside the camp, he focused on the social and psychological dimensions of the decision and said: "The Germana camp is not just a concrete settlement, but bears the symbolism of continuous refuge and displacement since the disaster in 1948 and the withdrawal in 1967."

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