I can't write because I'm frustrated - that power was cut to Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Safafa last night for over six hours because soldiers fired on the power station, destroying one of the generators. Nobody in Dheisheh is able to go to work, except those who work in Bethlehem. Life has come to a standstill. All we can spend our days doing is to closely follow the news. I went watched TV with my neighbors yesterday.
Nobody wants the clashes to end.
Everyone here wants an all out confrontation and to the hell with it. Every woman I talk to here says the same. The mood is so different this time. People are just fed up. I grab Marianna, my 2 year-old neighbor, and hold her tight to my chest.