PERSON: Mohammed El-Kurd

Palestine Correspondent

Mohammed el-Kurd (born 15 May 1998) is a Palestinian writer and poet who has gained prominence for his description of Palestinians’ lives under occupation in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank. El-Kurd has referred to evictions as a form of ethnic cleansing, and has also accused Israel of imposing apartheid-style laws and regulations onto Palestinians in the occupied territories. He has also spoken out about the oppression in the Gaza Strip, notably the Gaza war.

El-Kurd was born in 1998 in East Jerusalem, the West Bank. Prior to the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, he was pursuing a master’s degree in the United States, but returned to protest Israel’s eviction of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.

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