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Saleh lives in one of the Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon called Burj al-Shamali, at a time when Lebanon was suffering from the worst economic and fuel conditions. In the fuel crisis of 2021, there are fuel days, not for all residents of the area but for doctors, nurses, and taxi drivers. This has made it difficult to get fuel inside the Palestinian camps. Saleh has long been trying to obtain fuel in very difficult ways.

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Ahmad al-Khalil is a Palestinian filmmaker, born in the diaspora in Saudi Arabia and raised in Lebanon. He studied film in Iran and Lebanon and in 2009 he worked with Palestinian organisations in archiving and documentary films about the history of Palestinian camps in Lebanon. From 2015 to 2023, he toured Europe mainly in Italy and Germany to showcase short films about the Palestinian diaspora and photo exhibitions about the migration route through Turkey, the Balkans and Europe. As well, in 2018, he directed a short film The Pump Agreement, a black comedy about colonial agreements and Arabs in Palestine. After October 7 2023, in the shadow of the genocide in Gaza, he produced 25 TV episodes of Stories from Gaza about daily life during “the war” in Gaza, through contacts with videographers and journalists from Gaza.