The love story of Nael Barghouti, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, and his wife Iman, is nothing short of a classic Palestinian folktale. Now, as Iman awaits her lover’s release from prison, Israel is not done trying to tear them apart.

Since returning to Palestine last year after studying in the U.S., Hareth Yousef has been exploring the mountains and lands around Kobar, his family’s ancestral village in the West Bank. On one of those hikes he visited an abandoned farm known as Katilia, which his grandparents used to plant before an Israeli settlement known as Nahliel was built near there in 1984. Yousef writes about these trips, and what they have meant to him and his family.