Prickly Pears of Palestine

‘Gives a human face to the conflict’ New Statesman
Foreword by Clare Short

‘Despite the endless media discussions about the rights and wrongs – perhaps because of them – I felt that most people perceived Palestinians one-dimensionally, as either victims or terrorists. I decided to go and spend some time there to see for myself.’
By living among the people of Palestine, travel writer Hilda Reilly embedded herself in one of the most widely reported and long-standing struggles in the world.
Immersed in the everyday life of the country, HIlda is able to give us inside into the people behind the politics and the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way few have done before.
Prickly Pears of Palestine provides a much-needed human face to what life is really like for people in Palestine, a country torn apart by politics.