In Jenin refugee camp, a theatre complex becomes a graveyard

On March 14, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris and Palestinian-Canadian artist Rehab Nazzal visited a graveyard in the Jenin refugee camp in occupied Palestine. Hours earlier, an Israeli sniper had shot dead two unarmed Palestinian men who were seeking cover from gunfire at the Jenin Governmental Hospital. Lascaris and Nazzal had hoped to attend the funeral of these men, but they arrived at the graveyard where the men were buried shortly after the completion of the burial. That graveyard was originally intended as the site for a new theatre complex in Jenin, but the large number of Jenin refugees killed by Israeli forces within the past several months forced local authorities to use the site as a cemetery. Throughout their visit to the graveyard, an Israeli drone circled overhead.