Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Returning to the Nakba Fifty-Nine Years Later


A Photo Essay Two refugees, an old man and his wife,sit reminiscing about the old days. "Nakba in Pictures"

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An Old Refugee. UNRWA Photo


1948 UNRWA photo



Palestinian refugees separated from their home by the "green line". 1948 UNRWA photo



Israeli soldiers looting an Unidentified Jerusalem area Palestinian village in 1948. GPO/AIC photo.



Israeli Soldiers in abandoned Palestinian home in Qatamoun, West Jerusalem, in 1948. GPO/AIC Photo.


Unidentified Palestinian village being blown up in 1948 after the deportation of its population by Israel. GPO/AIC Photo.



Refugees being forced out of their villages (near Lod and Ramla).



Scenes of devastation in the Palestinian residential quarters of East Jerusalem. "Before Their Diaspora"



A typical Palestinian refugee camp at Nahr al-Barid in northern Lebanon, winter 1948.UNRWA Photo

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