These Chains Will Be Broken is small, but a real gut punch. It is simply the stories of individual Palestinian prisoners. Men, women, children. Some arbitrary, some sentenced to 600 years, some arrested for resisting occupation, unlucky enough to break down in front of a checkpoint. All are stories of horrific Israeli cruelty and extraordinary Palestinian patience and resilience. 

The prisoner issue is often left out of the conversation, though freeing these thousands of people is the reason Israeli hostages get taken. There is great info at the end on international law and whether or not it is useful by Richard Falk

This is definitely an accessible angle into understanding a slice of what people have come to call "the conflict." (Ethnic cleansing, occupation, apartheid, genocide are more accurate descriptions.) I highly recommend it.