An exploration of the politics of living with and in a humanitarian condition. Rather than looking at humanitarian responses to moments of crisis, it considers the case of Palestinian refugees—who live in conditions of long-term displacement and who receive assistance from a long-standing humanitarian apparatus—to investigate the forms of political expression that emerge in these conditions. The article explores political values articulated both through rights claims and existential conditions and argue that even as humanitarianism can constrain action in certain ways it also provides mechanisms through which people are active in the world.