During the 1987 Intifada, extremist Rabbi Moshe Levinger took up residence on the street opposite Deheishe camp, which was surrounded by barbed wire and towering iron gates that only allowed people to pass through individually.

The camp, which is inhabited by about 12,000 refugees, was and still is witnessing national unity among all colors of the national spectrum, as the desire to remain in it and expand it remained a goal for all forces, which viewed it like its three solid mountains, which the extended families of sons and daughters climbed, so the mountains became a fence and an extension rich with people.

Cities cannot be imagined without their camps, just as they cannot be imagined without their mountains, valleys, and plains. The camps have become a topographical extension of the cities, and a human, cultural, and militant reservoir that produces minds that have drawn from the wellspring of knowledge and science in UNRWA schools. Education was, and still is, a capital, and one of the largest fixed and solid assets for refugee families.

Destroying the camps, by reoccupying them, bulldozing them, and displacing their inhabitants, is a vengeful behavior, driven by impulses of arrogance and dreams of expansion, and an attempt to seize the keys to the ancient houses hidden in the depths of hearts, and hanging on the eyelashes of eyes, generation after generation.

The northern camps were emptied of residents, and tanks entered them to reside in them for a year, during which their homes were leveled to the ground, their features changed, and return to them was prevented, after the seals were removed from the guardian of dreams.

Away from the brassy language and throaty speeches, there is no weapon that disturbs Israel more than the weapon of demographics, whose numbers are increasing between the river and the sea in a promising geometric progression.