Samiha Hureini is a university student from the village of a-Tuwani, in the South Hebron Hills. She is one of the founders of Youth of Sumud, a group of young people who came together to defend their community in the wake of a dramatic direct action (chronicled in the very first episode of Unsettled).

In this interview with producer Max Freedman, Samiha explains how Youth of Sumud has maintained a Palestinian presence in the caves of Sarura despite the constant threat of violence from soldiers and settlers, and the price that she and her family have paid for their activism.

• Youth of Sumud: Facebook, Instagram
• Center for Jewish Nonviolence: Facebook, Instagram
• “The Story of Sumud” (Unsettled, 8/4/17)
• “Palestinian children travel dangerous route to school in At-Tuwani” (DCI Palestine, 9/10/13)
• Yuval Abraham, “He grabbed his generator. They shot him in the neck” (+972, 1/3/21)
• Amira Hass and Hagar Sheizaf, “The Village Where Palestinians Are Completely Powerless” (Haaretz, 1/5/21)
• Twitter thread on Sami Hureini’s recent arrest (1/9/21)