We continue with our special series "A TALE OF JERUSALEM". Today in the final episode, we have the story of a Palestinian refugee camp in the middle of Jerusalem. The camp isn't governed by anyone, not Israelis or Palestinians. And the result is a ticking time bomb some predict could be the nucleus of a future uprising. Our correspondent Stephanie Freid talks with a young woman who grew up inthe camp.

WALLAH ADAWEEN SHAUFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "There was a park and it was green. Green trees, green grass, there was green everywhere. And there were flowers. And a fountain in the middle."

While visiting her grandmother in a nearby village, a younger Wallah realized she was a refugee.

WALLAH ADAWEEN SHAUFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "My grandma's house was big. So we didn't have to dress modestly inside the house or wear a hijab - the neighbors couldn't see us."

Growing up in Shuafat refugee camp, Wallah shared a four-room apartment with eight siblings, two parents and two sets of grandparents - Fifteen people.

WALLAH ADAWEEN SHAUFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "The first time we saw rats we were scared. But then it became normal so we didn't notice them anymore. We had a squat toilet at home, sometimes rats came through there."

Located on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Shuafat is an overcrowded, concrete, "no man's land" - neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority takes direct responsibility for the camp or its approximately eighty five thousand inhabitants.

Built by Jordan in 1966, annexed by Israel in 1967 and walled off by and from Israel in the early two thousands, Shuafat is crime-ridden and piled high with weapons and untreated waste. The UN refugee agency UNRWA is responsible for the camp and provides medical and food aid and education for refugees. Wallah left Shuafat a few years ago - she's now a biology student living on the campus of a Ramallah university.

WALLAH ADAWEEN SHAUFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "When we played hide and seek, this was our hiding spot. The other kids always had to lift me up because I was too short."

STEPHANIE FREID SHUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "Wallah's childhood stories are similar to stories of kids growing up all over the world. Like the one about this alleyway where all the kids in the neighborhood were afraid to come because they thought it was haunted."

Or playing "Arabs and Israeli soldiers"until the night it stopped being a game.

WALLAH ADAWEEN SHUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "They were banging on the door when I saw them arresting my brother, I started crying and my mother started crying."

Her brother was sixteen at the time - she was ten.

WALLAH ADAWEEN SHUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM "I thought they were going to shoot us. That we were all going to be killed."

Raids are common as are homemade laboratories where dealers sell synthetic drugs. Shuafat is a camp that fell through the administrative cracks. Some say there's no solution for improving conditions and some speculate the next Palestinian uprising will explode from here. Wallah has fond childhood memories but seeing Shuafat through 23-year-old eyes she says she isn't sorry for leaving.

STEPHANIE FREID, CGTN, SHUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, EAST JERUSALEM.