1987- The First Intifada

Palestinians, tired of occupation and oppression, start to organise resistance on a mass scale. While the continuing repression was the catalyst for the rise in resistance activities, an incident involving a jeep in Gaza acts as the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Protests and methods of civil disobedience start spreading like wildfire. The refugee camps become hubs for resistance activities and in Aida, curfews and gunfire soon becomes common place. In Beit Sahour around the corner, residents refuse to pay taxes and Israel punishes them with demolitions and sieges.

The price for resistance is high; soldiers, gun-fire, mass arrests are now an everyday occurrence. And no-one is safe - according to an estimate by the Swedish branch of Save the Children, as many as 29,900 children required medical treatment for injuries caused by beatings from Israeli soldiers during the first two years of the Intifada alone. Nearly a third of them are aged ten or under.

Your children are now grown up. Your second son, Moosa, is in his early twenties. As a young Palestinian who has only known occupation, Musa is keen to join in the resistance.

Today there are particularly violent clashes happening nearby and he is due to join them with some friends from the camp.