Ali Kanibi is accustomed to two things: his smartphone and looking at others through the window. There is nothing else this 14-year-old Palestinian teenager can do. In his home in the western Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Al-Quds, Ali sits in front of a ground floor window with wrought-iron bars overlooking the walkway that runs alongside the house.

A slogan covers the outer wall: “Not for the colonization of Sheikh Jarrah”. It’s been seven months since a young Palestinian (14 years) detained by Tel Aviv, clinging to his window bars, watching others live when he can’t.

Last June, Israel attempted to evict Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah to make way for Israeli settlers, sparking protests in the occupied West Bank and beyond. Soon after, Ali was arrested in the neighborhood, accused of throwing Molotov cocktails.

Four days later, he was released on the condition that he would remain under house arrest for a week. The following month, he was arrested again, charged with setting ablaze the car of a settler who had confiscated a neighboring house in Sheikh Jarrah a few years earlier. He and his family denied an allegation. And again he is under house arrest, but for an indefinite period.