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Like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Eman Odeh, 23, can pinpoint the date of her family’s exile from Palestine to June of 1967. Both her grandfathers served in the Jordanian army at the time and fought to defend the West Bank village they were from, Faqua, which sits a few kilometres north of Jenin. “My grandmother left all her fabric at home on purpose exactly where it was because she thought she’d come back and finish sewing” On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a surprise attack on Egyptian air forces, setting forth what came to be known as the Six-Day War between Egypt, Syria, Jordan, a…