Abdelsalam Odeh and his wife have been living in a bus for the past three months. The couple had nowhere to go and no means to pay rent after being expelled at gunpoint from their lifelong home in the Tulkarem refugee camp by the Israeli army earlier this year.
But desperation has a way of unlocking ingenuity — and for 71-year-old Odeh, that meant repurposing an old vehicle, piece by piece, and turning it into a home.
He converted the inside of the small bus into a bedroom and attached a small kitchen extension using corrugated steel sheets.
The humanitarian crisis facing 42,000 forcibly displaced Palestinians in the West Bank
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Aug 1
Abdelsalam Odeh and his wife have been living in a bus for the past three months. The couple had nowhere to go and no means to pay rent after being expelled at gunpoint from their lifelong home in the Tulkarem refugee camp by the Israeli army earlier this year.
But desperation has a way of unlocking ingenuity — and for 71-year-old Odeh, that meant repurposing an old vehicle, piece by piece, and turning it into a home.
He converted the inside of the small bus into a bedroom and attached a small kitchen extension using corrugated steel sheets.
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