By Muna Hamzeh

"For 4 days, i have never been capable of write. The complications, the nausea, the ache in my eyes ultimately stuck up with me ... i could not write, simply as i could not maintain any nutrients down, or get away the power nightmares each time i attempted to sleep. i have been dreaming of pals getting injured, of blood, and of individuals looking protect from falling bombs. even if we sleep, there isn't any escape." Muna Hamzeh This striking ebook is a gripping eyewitness account of what it's wish to stay in Palestine as a refugee on your personal fatherland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing approximately Palestinian affairs considering 1985. She first labored as a journalist in Washington DC, yet moved again to Palestine in 1989 to hide the 1st Palestine Intifada ? the warfare of stones. She then settled in Dheisheh, close to Bethlehem, one in every of fifty nine Palestinian refugee camps which are thought of the oldest refugee camps on the planet. the 1st a part of the ebook 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 outfitted armies on this planet, the Palestinians don't have anything. The ache and terror that Muna and her acquaintances face every single day is tangible. Who would be the subsequent to die? Whose condominium may be the subsequent to burn down? the second one a part of the e-book offers the heritage to those present occasions. It describes what existence has been like for Dheisheh's refugees when you consider that 1990, and explains why the second one Intifada used to be a ordinary improvement of the Oslo peace accord. "Refugees in Our personal Land" is a unprecedented insider's look at the hearts and minds of Palestinian refugees.