SHE didn't know who the tall white man in the checkered shirt was nor did she care.
But 32-year-old mother of five Hayam wanted to tell Australia's visiting Immigration Minister Peter Dutton she wanted to go home - now. 
And not home from the medical centre where she had sat flanked by two wheezy boys for more than two hours, but her real home in Syria.
Mr Dutton on his first visit to the Middle East as minister came offering 12,000 places to resettle in Australia, but as he walked along the crowded streets of the Zaatari refugee camp he heard the same message - home was where the heart was and that was not beating in a new country on the other side of the world.
"I hope to God we go back to our country and it is safe," the minister was told by Hayam, speaking through an interpreter. "But what do you hope, what do you think the future holds, what opportunities for you?" Mr Dutton pressed. "I am prepared to stay here then God willing we can go home; but what God wants," she said.
Mr Dutton arrived in Jordan yesterday morning and within hours was standing behind a fortified viewing point just 100m from where the Free Syrian Army could be seen operating. The minister spent much of the morning at the sprawling Zaatari refugee camp, listening to stories from aid workers and some of the 79,000 refugees and also being briefed by his department's officials from his Syrian Refugee Resettlement Task Force led by deputy secretary Peter Vardos.
The stories were distressing and some horrifying particularly, as Mr Dutton would later recount, the children who as innocent victims were being wounded in the war in their home towns and forced to flee to Jordan.
But then Mr Dutton and his convoy of black Land Cruisers made for the Syrian border, with the minister insistent on seeing from where the chaos came that a "compassionate Australia" was now trying to help. By his own admission, he was looking for "reinforcement" for his resettlement program and he got it.
Surrounded by a fleet of utes with mounted 50 calibre guns and dug in tanks, gun pits and heavily armed troops, Mr Dutton was taken effectively to the frontline at Tower 15 of the 1st Company, 10th battalion Jordanian Army.
Less than 100m away, Brigadier General Hasan Hayajne explained were the Free Syrian Army building two shelters from where civilians were to be evacuated to Jordan when, not if, they are wounded.About 5km was pummelled Tal Shihab village and just 10km away was the city of Daraa where Russian and Syrian forces were just last week firing precision missiles and dropping barrel bombs on the locals and rebel fighters.