Watching the Land of My Ancestors From This Side of The Fence

(First photo) Two year-old Omar Shalabi walks towards a barbed-wire gate and checkpoint, separating his village from an illegal Israeli settlement, where his family’s land used to be. (Second Photo) Omar walks towards the same gate, 18 years later, at 20 years old, with the green of the Earth overtaking the metal, but still only ever able to see his family’s land from this side of that gate.