| Fatmi Yusef, 54, a native of Smariyeh, Palestine. "What will happen to these children?" she asks. "People want to fight because we have a bad situation here in Ein el Helweh. Where are our human rights? People have to know that we have a home. They have to help us return to our home. We prefer to die in our home. I am not sad about the fighting in Palestine. We were waiting for this. We are waiting for the liberation of Palestine. We want to make peace but they don't want this. We could live with the Israeli people if they were peaceful people, but they are not. We would be proud to die fighting bad Israelis." Fatmi makes the point that her father had an Israeli friend who lived near their house before they were driven from their home. She says there is no reason why Jews and Muslims cannot live together peacefully: "Muhammad lived near Arab Jews, but why are Ethiopians taking our homes?"
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