I came home and I switched on the TV and I saw it. My sister called me and she told me she thinks it’s Bin Laden.

This was the first time I had heard of Bin Laden because I’m young and I don’t know him.

After that I was watching 24 hours a day and I was overwhelmed. I couldn’t believe that in America this could happen.

It hurts inside

This was the first time I felt that maybe the world now is going to see what we feel here in Israel. Every day I wake up and I go to school and I feel fear in my heart - if I’m going to explode today, if my friends are going to die.

I saw many bomb explosions here in Jerusalem and many of my friends were killed in the city centre. Every day we face this reality and it scares me.

Every time I see an Arabic person I feel fear. And this is what I am facing every single day - if I should go to city centre, if I should go to the mall.

I thought that maybe 11 September would change the way people around the world think about us, but it hasn’t changed.

It hurts me inside because they think we’re bad people and kill the Arabs and we don’t give them anything.