While the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel has stepped up a campaign of terror in the Occupied West Bank. Fearing for his life, Waleed Samer, a linguistics student who has helped The Real News film an original documentary in the West Bank over the past year, documents the day-by-day reality of living under Israel’s occupation and tells the story of his family’s harrowing escape from their Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. This is his story. Filmed by Waleed SamerProduction, voice-over, and editing by Ross Domoney Transcript Waleed Samer:  Hi everyone. How are you? My name is Waleed Samer, 20 years old.  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: Life in Waleed’s refugee camp has become unbearable. Waleed Samer: Ok there is a lot of snipers around me. If I open my door they will kill me. Why I will try [to go outside]? I will not try. I will stay in my house.  They [the Israeli army] took my grandfather’s land in 1948. So maybe this is the second chance to take my land [here] in the camp.  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: With only a handful of armed Palestinian fighters left, Waleed fears his camp is about to be overtaken by the army. Waleed Samer:  Are you worried about your cat? Waleed’s little sister:  Yeah. Waleed Samer: Because of the army? [Waleed’s little sister nods.] Ross Domoney [Narrator]: Over a period of ten days, Waleed sent us footage from his phone. The Israeli army is raiding his camp on a near daily basis. Small windows of time allow for him to go outside. Waleed Samer: It’s like a battle here. Look what they are doing.  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: Nur Shams refugee camp was established by Palestinians who fled their native lands in the 1948 Nakba, where Zionist militias displaced and killed thousands to create what is today known as the state of Israel. This is Ross Domoney reporting for The Real News. In April this year, myself and my colleague Antonis Vradis met Waleed in his camp whilst filming a documentary. He helps connect journalists like us to stories in his community so that he can fund his education. Now, months later, his ability to study or even to eat has been severely restricted as the army cuts off food and water to his camp. Waleed Samer: This is my brother. He wears a black t-shirt. He’s going to get some hummus and falafel.  It’s my [first] breakfast [in] two days. We must have bread to eat [with] that. But we are really hungry.  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: Another day, another raid. Waleed Films from his balcony. Waleed Samer: Many people in the camp now if you can listen… Many people are in a stress[ful] situation and they are just trying to get out [of] the camp but they can’t. So the situation now is very dangerous.  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: A brief lull in the Israeli assault allows for a funeral. The leader of the camp’s battalion is buried. A farewell gun salute… A chance to go out again and signs that the army is still facing resistance. Back at home, his parents grow increasingly worried for the safety of their children and discuss the possibility of leaving Palestine. Waleed, like any other 20-year-old, would like to relax and enjoy life. Waleed Samer: I don’t have any dreams here. My future here [is not] clear. I don’t know what will happen [to] me in the next one hour maybe. No one knows what will happen [to] him. So I [imagine] I have a good future in my life: I can go out and continue my study in good universities, see the people [outside] of Palestine, [outside] of the West Bank. I can move freely. No one can attack me. No one can arrest me. Hello? Antonis Vradis – Lecturer at St Andrew’s University: Waleed! Waleed Samer: Hi habibi how are you?  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: Waleed gets a call from Antonis about a program that might be able to help him study. Antonis Vradis – Lecturer at St Andrew’s University: My university here in Scotland has a scholarship that is specifically for Palestinian students.  Waleed Samer: That’s nice.  Antonis Vradis – Lecturer at St Andrew’s University: Yeah.  Waleed Samer: Just imagine I finish my bachelor’s and go to Scotland university and take the masters. Oh that would be great. Every woman in life would come and marry me. The life in the last maybe three-four months has become worse here. [There is] no work or money. I don’t have the costs to pay my university, this is the hardest thing [for] me. Many things have happened. I have just started thinking I have a big future ahead of me.  Someone [came] into my house and was asking about my dad and [I told] him my dad is not home. He told me take these two cartons of water because the IDF at the last [raid] cut off the water.  Sitting in my house, opening my phone [to] see what is going on [outside] my house. I need some bread or something to eat. Maybe I was having some bread [or] something to eat yesterday but today I don’t have anything.  I’m just now trying to go out from my house. When I open the door, I listen if there are any planes [drones] or something like that. I swear there is a plane [drone] above my head just filming me and quickly I close my door and come back to home. I cannot do anything. Really, the situation here is really, really bad.  Ross Domoney [Narrator]: Waleed sends me a picture of a charred body. It’s the last remaining fighter from his camp. After that, his messages fall silent. Despite the hardship of life in the West Bank, he would rather stay than leave. But the occupation’s violence left him no choice. Waleed leaves his homeland like his grandfather did in 1948.