Five students, armed with a pocket-torch, stand guard at the hilltop entrance of the small Palestinian village of Kfar Qusra.

The Jinan delegation was invited to visit Israel by the city of Kfar Saba of Israel, which became sister city with Jinan in 2009.

Somewhere ahead of him were a group of fedayeen, Arab guerrilla fighters, who had come to attack the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom.