Sacramento Union · Sacramento, California · 10 December 1956
CP-1956-017
Life—And Business
Transcribed from the clipping
“LIFE—AND BUSINESS—continue as usual in age-old fashion in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip city wrested from Egypt by Israel in recent hostilities. Here, Arab date vender plies his street trade, apparently unruffled by present tensions in the Middle East.”—(AP Wire Photofax)
Context added by this archive
A man selling dates on a scale, photographed in Khan Yunis in December 1956, six weeks after the killings there. The caption says life and business continue as usual and that he appears unruffled. The verb for what happened to the city is wrested, and the city is wrested from Egypt, not from anyone who lives in it.
Cite this clipping
"Life—And Business," Sacramento Union, 10 December 1956, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-017. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-017
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