By Muna Hamzeh
"For 4 days, i have never been capable of write. The complications, the nausea, the soreness in my eyes eventually stuck up with me ... i could not write, simply as i could not maintain any nutrition down, or break out the power nightmares each time i attempted to sleep. i have been dreaming of neighbors getting injured, of blood, and of individuals looking defend from falling bombs. even if we sleep, there is not any escape." Muna Hamzeh This impressive e-book is a gripping eyewitness account of what it truly is wish to reside in Palestine as a refugee on your personal fatherland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing approximately Palestinian affairs because 1985. She first labored as a journalist in Washington DC, yet moved again to Palestine in 1989 to hide the 1st Palestine Intifada ? the struggle of stones. She then settled in Dheisheh, close to Bethlehem, considered one of fifty nine Palestinian refugee camps which are thought of the oldest refugee camps on the planet. the 1st a part of the booklet involves a diary which Hamzeh wrote among October 4th and December 4th 2000, telling the tale of the second one Intifada. dealing with the tanks and armed guards of 1 of the simplest built armies on the earth, the Palestinians don't have anything. The soreness and terror that Muna and her acquaintances face day by day is tangible. Who could be the subsequent to die? Whose residence could be the subsequent to burn down? the second one a part of the booklet presents the historical past to those present occasions. It describes what lifestyles has been like for Dheisheh's refugees considering the fact that 1990, and explains why the second one Intifada was once a usual improvement of the Oslo peace accord. "Refugees in Our personal Land" is an extraordinary insider's check out the hearts and minds of Palestinian refugees.
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S. were trying to forcefully shove down our throats is not a peace that can last because it would only create an apartheid Israeli-controlled Palestinian state and not an independent Palestinian state? N. Resolutions 242, 338 and 194 will never bring real peace to Palestine? As I sit here writing, nearly 20,000 people are participating in yet another funeral procession in Bethlehem. The martyr this time is 14year-old Muayad Jawarish from Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem. An Israeli soldier shot him in the head while he was on his way home from school, his school bag still on his back.
We hear on the news that starting tomorrow morning, Israel will lift the “internal” blockade imposed on the West Bank. We all start to laugh. All that this “internal” lifting of the blockade means is that people who live in Bethlehem’s Zone C will be able to travel to Zone A. All the villages surrounding the town of Bethlehem are in Zone C and therefore under full Israeli control. As a result of the blockade, residents of these areas have not been able to leave their villages, only minutes away from downtown Bethlehem, and drive to town.
There are condemnations from the world community, but not for Israel and the atrocities it continues to commit against us. Where are you Anne Frank? Where are you? Is this what you died for? Did you die so that your people can turn around and commit these pogroms against another people? You were so young and didn’t deserve to die; yet you died because of your identity. Our identity is the reason they’re killing us now. It is our very existence that they are fighting. Oh Anne! I wish you could come back to life to take a look and tell me what you think!