For a spectator, sign language looks like welcoming gestures. “We” looks like a hug; “thank you” looks like a prayer. One would think that when a person is born deaf, sign language becomes their first language, but not for many youth and adults in Palestine. Most of them cannot understand what people say to them, and the larger number of them cannot re‐spond. They live in a cardboard box, only they can leap out of, that is, of course, if provided with the necessary tools and means.  

Being deaf is difficult, but being deaf in Palestine is double trouble. With very little informa‐tion provided on this particular disability, in addition to very few resources, deaf students in the Palestinian educational system are only kept in public schools until 9th grade. After‐wards, they have to fend for themselves.