What are things that can only happen to Palestinians?

This is a good question. Although, I am not sure about the context of it. There are some things that came to mind. They are specific to Gaza and may or may not applicable to West Bank too.

• When you decide to open a business, the first thing to think of is purchasing a power generator.

This is the main street in the downtown of Gaza city, Those red things are power generators, every store has one of these. They are so annoying.

• It's too normal to see truck batteries in any house stairwell.
• If a Gazan wants to travel to a country, he has to travel to Egypt first, and people from West Bank have to travel to Jordan first.
• Most of Gazans never went to West Bank. To demonstrate, it's like a French person from Paris never went to Marseille, Not like he choose not to go, but he is actually forbidden. It's work the same way for people in West Bank.
• We have two governments, it sounds bizarre, but it's literally true.
• We don't have a currency, We use another countries' currency.
• The Palestinian passport is one of the worst passports one can hold.

This is the worst 5 passports in the world (Source: Passport Index - World's passports ranked by power.)

• Despite the fact that our passport is so weak, The process of getting a visa to Europe or USA is maybe much easier than waiting the borders to be opened.
• There are an extra field on every Palestinian birth certificate, under birthdate and Mother Name, there is "Original Town", This field contains the original town of the person's family where they fled from in the 1948 war.
• When you decide to get married. There is a high chance that you would be rejected by the woman's family because of the "Original Town" thing.
• We have two football leagues. (One in Gaza and One in the West Bank).
• Palestinians suffer from stereotyping a lot. Palestine is so different than Palestine that you see in the news.

Other than that, we eat, drink, work and breath normally. But with a lump in the heart and a fear in the eyes.

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