located in east jerusalem, cultural center sabreen is a meeting place for palestinian artists. the soul of this important place. he has tirelessly organized concerts and art exhibitions and supported young artists who need ways to express themselves in order to survive the struge. bu how is palestinian culture surviving under the occupation? said: i think culture usually survive because culture is inside you. and palestinians are... you know, when you don't have weapons, when you don't have money, when you don't have power in general or resources to adapt, you can sing, you can write music, you can make a painting, you can dance. no one can stop you from this. so palestinians are doing this on a daily basis. like, it's one of the few choices left to them. yaffa: palestinian culture is so old, and it's been going on r so--a long time. all cultures and, i think, all arts, they always transform, and they mutate, and they become--how is the forward movement with palestinian arts culture? said: i remember, when we started, it was a few musicians, a few singers and painters--you can

. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "smoke of the volcanoes" by sabreen. this is democracy now!cracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. as israel and hamas agree to a cease-fire, we look at the tragic death of one palestinian teenager this week. his name is obaida jawabreh. israeli forces shot the 17-year-old ad in the west bank's al-arroub refugee camp, where obaida grew up. he was the subject of a short film in 2019 produced by t ildren's humarights gup defence r childr palesti. d in lm, obdahares his experien as a paleinian chilfacing vionce from t israeloccupation despite his young age, he was detained at least three times by israi forces srting at t age of 1 th is obaida in s own wos. this is the time -- at the time he was just 15 years old. >> my name is obda jawabreh i am from a refugee camp. amy: those are the words of obaida jawabreh and a short film at the te he w 15 years d. israeli military shot him to death on monday, just a month shy ofis 18th bihday. in the short film,baida said he had dreams about becoming a chef after leaing to ck while in israeli m