After months of relentless Israeli attacks on the Jenin refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reports that some Palestinian women have been allowed to briefly return, only to pack up their belongings and leave.

After applying for permission from the Israeli military, they were given 40 minutes to pack a lifetime of memories in the al-Hawashin neighbourhood of Jenin.

Nisreen Abu Zeina, a displaced woman from Jenin, said they just wanted to check on the camp and their homes.

“We pray that one day we will be back,” she told Al Jazeera. “We were searched over and over again, but we eventually managed to get to our homes that are still standing. We walked a long distance on destroyed roads, the stench was unbearable. They kept rushing us.”