News - Middle East: Peppered with Israeli shrapnel and bullets, the occupied West Bank’s Freedom Theater has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize with Palestinians hoping that the iconic cultural haven still generates resistance through art from within the Jenin refugee camp.

The once vibrant and lively Palestinian community-based theater and cultural center was ransacked and vandalized during several days of barbaric airstrikes and ground assault by the Israeli regime against the 24,000-person refugee camp.
The Freedom Theater was the beating heart of peace and hope inside the crowded camp but it stopped due to the attacks, while its walls were disfigured by numerous gunshot holes and scrawled with the Star of David.
During a raid on the theater house in December, the Israeli military also shot from inside, destroying the offices and knocking down a wall of the building that houses the theater.