Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin, a bestseller in 2010, was a raw and emotional account of four generations of one Palestinian family.
Forces have been pulled out of the West Bank towns of Jenin, Hebron and from parts of Ramallah, though they remain in position near the offices there of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader.
Even before the bombing, the Israeli army had reoccupied Jenin and slapped a curfew on Qalqiliya.The greater fear especially among Palestinians ensnared in their increasingly isolated villages is that Israeli settlers will be given free rein to exact revenge.
Meanwhile, it says, it has tightened its "closures" of Jenin, Nablus and other Palestinian towns in the north of the West Bank.
THE Palestinian dead in Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Dura are being counted in their hundreds.
Out of the ruins of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem, a similar new leadership may emerge.
On April 5th, it attempted to penetrate Jenin camp, the home of 13,000 refugees and a bastion of Palestinian nationalism, which has provided several suicide-bombers.
But around Jenin, for example, militiamen are hiding out in caves gouged out of the mountains, committed to renewed guerrilla war in the occupied territories and suicide attacks inside Israel.
The plight of women, children and the elderly in Jenin has been gravely exacerbated by the denial of access to medical workers, food and water.
With his deep, passionate voice and wildly waving arms, he would teach the children of Jenin to hurl words and music at the occupiers until they overcame them, and the armoured cars trundled back across the Green Line.
In one interview he said he had never felt so Jewish as he did now in Jenin, suddenly needing every scrap of his field training, thinking like a beleaguered soldier.
