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The Palestinian game fighting to exist

Al Jazeera · · 64 words
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A developer from the occupied West Bank is turning a 75-year-old Palestinian folk tale into a video game”
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The claim is corroborated by Al Jazeera, which identifies Rasheed Abueideh as a developer based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank creating 'Dreams on a Pillow'. Wikipedia confirms the game's existence and its plot involving the Nakba (which occurred 76 years ago, aligning with the '75-year-old' folk tale/event context).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then ruled by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. The W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories. They are populated by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The enclaves are…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves
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“Dreams on a Pillow follows a mother displaced during the 1948 Nakba”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that 'Dreams on a Pillow' follows Omm, a woman attempting to flee from her home in Palestine to Lebanon during the Nakba.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dreams on a Pillow is an upcoming 2.5D stealth game developed by Rasheed Abueideh. It follows Omm, a woman attempting flee from her home in Palestine to Lebanon during the Nakba. The game is scheduled…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_on_a_Pillow
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Esther Cailingold (Hebrew: אסתר ציילינגולד; 28 June 1925 – 29 May 1948) was a British-born schoolteacher of Polish extraction, who fought with the Jewish forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and di…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Cailingold
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palestinian traditional clothing are the types of clothing historically and sometimes still presently worn by Palestinians. Foreign travelers to Palestine in the 19th and early 20th centuries often co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_traditional_costum…
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“developer Rasheed Abueideh”
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Multiple independent sources confirm Rasheed Abueideh is a game developer: Wikipedia (developer of Dreams on a Pillow), Al Jazeera (director and designer), and Arena El-Games (interview with Palestinian game developer Rasheed Abueideh).
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web search NEUTRAL — Dreams on a Pillow is an upcoming 2.5D stealth game developed by Rasheed Abueideh. It follows Omm, a woman attempting flee from her home in Palestine to Lebanon during the Nakba. The game is scheduled…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_on_a_Pillow
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web search NEUTRAL — In this episode of Arena El-Games, we sit down with Palestinian game developer Rasheed Abueideh to discuss his journey in the tech world, the challenges of game development under occupation, and his p…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/game-development-face-occupat…
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web search NEUTRAL — The game is the brainchild of Rasheed Abueideh, a developer based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “We are trying to make this game a masterpiece,” Abueideh, the game’s director and designer, told A…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/18/what-is-dreams-on-a…
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