Achmed is 55 years old, he is a father of seven, and describes himself as a Jordanian and a Palestinian. He has lived in Jerusalem all of his life.

Achmed recalls of the 7th June 1967, "I was a young man, I had been working in the hotels but I was thrown out because there was not much work. I had been sick and I was sleeping in the house. I woke up to the banging of guns. There was a lot of fighting. People were running away from the war. Life was terrible at that time in Jerusalem and we were here, in the middle of it. Some people were injured, some people were killed, these are not good memories."

"There was shooting from that morning for three or four days, we never left the house as there was a curfew. We did not lose family because I kept all my children inside with me. I was worried for them because my children were afraid of the war. The soldiers came into the house they saw that it was empty and they left. They did not trouble for us. They were looking for other soldiers and if they could not find any they went away."

Achmed believes that life improved over the following decades, but complains that in recent years the cost of living has become too expensive for Jerusalem's Arab population. Achmed considers this to be a consequence of the lull in the tourism industry and the increasing unemployment that this brings with it.