Nasser and his daughter Maissa, in one of their tents

Nasser Jaber Ismail Abu Said (38) is from a family of refugees and lives in Johr al Dik, a small farming village east of Gaza City. Until 2010, he lived with his parents in their house located approximately 300 meters from the Palestinian-Israeli border. He is married and has five children, four boys, Ala (11), Beha (10), Sahad (9) and Jaber (4), and one girl Maissa (6). He says that “We used to be very happy, we used to work in our land and we were doing well. My parents were on the first floor and we were on the second with the kids. The children used to play on the street, and we used to sit in the street, watching TV with our families.” However, everything changed on the evening of 13 July 2010.