"Last year, we all went on a trip to the Golan, but the soldiers turned me back— only me— because I didn't have an Israeli ID. It was a surreal and totally exasperating experience."
"My wife has to wait in a separate line at the checkpoints. We tell the girls that she is going to buy them some sweets, but we won't be able to keep fooling them for long."
"I want to go to university to study journalism and political science, but I have no idea where or how; all the paths before me are blocked. I feel hopeless."
"In the summer of 2010, my family went to Sinai. It was when my father applied for my travel permit that he found out that my residency permit had been withdrawn."
"The children are terrified of the army and police. They're not even comfortable having their mother with them in the car. Can you imagine that? I'm so tired of it all."
"I had to smuggle my wife to her father and sister's funerals through the bypass roads. She can't enter the West Bank because she wouldn't be permitted to come back."