abu ali and his family fled their town, they say, because of the israeli shelling. they moved several times before settling here. translation: we moved four or five times before arriving here. do i expect to return home? god knows. but unfortunately, there are no signs on the horizon. nothing. if it wasn t for the war, fatima would have been now at school in grade six. translation: i was supposed to enroll for the school year i when the war started. my father came home one day and told us to prepare to leave. we were packing our stuff and crying at the same time. i miss everything back home. and this hotel turned into a displacement centre. into a displacement centre. people refer to each other by the number of their rooms. and behind each door, there s a story of a border town. this is bintjbeil and so on. a different room, a different story. this woman doesn t even know if her house still stands. translation: no one has access to the village now l because of the situation