Journey onwards

With the possessions you managed to salvage you go towards Bethlehem. This is unlike many of your family, friends and neighbours but it is a key place for your religion and you feel that you need to be close to God at a time like this.

Searching for a safe haven, you eventually find yourself at the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. The Aida refugee camp is one of 58 recognised Palestinian refugee camps that still exist today in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

At the camp, established in 1950, you meet Palestinians from 27 other villages in the western Jerusalem and western Hebron areas. Initially, this camp started as a safe zone with the promise that the refugees could return to their villages after the conflict was over. At this time, the camp hosted 1,125 refugees living in 94 tents.