Further north, in Jenin, the Palestinian movement is rent by the same violent factionalism.
She says her favourite book is Mornings In Jenin by the Palestinian American writer Susan AbulHawa.
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Even before the bombing, the Israeli army had reoccupied Jenin and slapped a curfew on Qalqiliya.
Construction started on Sunday near Jenin and is due to take a year before it reaches Jerusalem.
Most people in Jenin think the talks will just give Israel breathing space to keep the status quo.
The Israelis' move into Jenin was the latest in a series of recent seizures of Palestinian Authority offices.
On August 19th, a boy aged 13, who had been throwing stones at soldiers, was shot dead near Jenin.
Israeli troops fought gun battles around the city during their incursion, particularly around the Jenin refugee camp, Manasra said.
Jenin's much-hyped joint Palestinian-Israeli industrial zone is still a bare patch of land.
Previously, Israel has claimed that two recent Palestinian suicide bombers came from Jenin.
This month's salaries arrived just in time for the Eid al-Fitr festival that ended Ramadan, and Jenin's markets were packed.
The latest descent into violence was precipitated by 29-year-old Hanadi Jaradat, a trainee lawyer from the West Bank town of Jenin.
But Jenin's workers, who before the 2000 intifada garnered most of their earnings in Israel, remain barred from taking jobs there.
The presence of Israeli forces on the outskirts of the Palestinian towns of Jenin and Ramallah prompted firefights with Palestinian gunmen.
Israeli troops pulled out of the town of Qalqilya early Monday, but Israeli forces remained in parts of Jenin, Ramallah and Tulkarem.
After a 23-year interval, the German government has funded the reopening of Jenin's open-air cinema on the slopes below the refugee camp.
Now that the Israeli army has pulled back from Jenin once more, Mohammed Mahajneh expects to see a new influx of cases.
It is conducting similar raids in Jenin, occasionally even against amnestied men.
Jenin has been under Palestinian control since October 1995, when it was handed over to the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo peace agreement.
From Jenin, the West Bank's northern and most isolated district, 20, 000 people may have emigrated south because it is so difficult to move around.
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There has been more violence between Palestinian factions in the West Bank, with police stations torched in Jenin and foreigners briefly abducted in Nablus.
Most precariously of all, Jenin's stability depends on the continued payment of government salaries just when a hole in Mr Fayyad's finances is widening.
They called for his reinstatement or, at the very least, that his successor should not be Zuhair Manasara, the PA's former governor of Jenin.
Stone-throwing protesters in the West Bank towns of Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and elsewhere faced off with Israeli soldiers deploying tear gas and stun grenades.
The first phase of the plan is reported to involve trenches and electric fencing separating the towns of Jenin, Tulkarm and Qalqilya from Israeli cities.
Israeli helicopter gunships were in action Saturday morning over the West Bank towns of Jenin and Tulkarem, striking at Palestinian security headquarters in both towns.
In a separate incident Thursday evening, four Israelis were hit by gunfire as they traveled in a car near the West Bank town of Jenin.
The UN later reported that during the pitched battle in Jenin refugee camp, 52 Palestinians were killed. 23 IDF soldiers were killed in the battle.
While Israeli troops gathered near Jenin, Israeli police fatally wounded a Palestinian man who they said was responsible for killing an Israeli settler last month.
Three Israelis were injured, one seriously, when the bomb went off in the makeshift cafeteria at a factory in the Shaked settlement near Jenin, police said.
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