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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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.
Jenin's much-hyped joint Palestinian-Israeli industrial zone is still a bare patch of land.
This month's salaries arrived just in time for the Eid al-Fitr festival that ended Ramadan, and Jenin's markets were packed.
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.
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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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.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said there were two deaths in the unrest: A 24-year-old Palestinian security officer in Ramallah and a Palestinian schoolgirl on her way to class in Jenin.
With the help of the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, Mohammed Mahajneh's team of more than 20 therapists are providing counselling to help the children of Jenin come to terms with their experiences.
Being in Jenin might have other advantages, if it really is in Jenin and if there is any truth to claims that Earth Station 5 is the creation of a fugitive from American justice.
Moreover, Jenin's economic upswing could easily be reversed.
Jenin is a rare place in the Arab world where ordinary people have a good word for Tony Blair, whose visits as envoy for the Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the United States) put the city on the map.
Mr Abu Rumeila praises Mr Fayyad, a non-Fatah technocrat, for his repeated walkabouts in places such as Jenin, but pours scorn on his Fatah masters who seem either to jet around the world or stay cocooned in their government compounds in Ramallah.
PA's former governor of Jenin.
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