Christmas in the Gaza Strip

Transcription

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Photograph caption

“CHRISTMAS IN THE GAZA STRIP—These two Palestinian refugee girls are Christian Arabs, spending this Christmas in a camp for the 10,000 displaced persons living in the Gaza Strip. They are Mary Aubersi (left) and Nora Nakhle, whose father fled Palestine in 1948. Nora has never seen a Christmas tree.”—AP Wirephoto.

Context added by this archive

Two Palestinian girls, named, in a Christmas wire photograph in 1959. The caption says Palestinian refugee girls, says Christian Arabs, and ends on a detail nobody needed to include.

Cite this item

"Christmas in the Gaza Strip," Evening Star, 25 December 1959. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1959-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1959-004

Elsewhere in the archive

Israelis Ease CurbsEvening Star · 26 November 1959 · the same newspaper
Hammarskjold Hears Complaints at GazaEvening Star · 26 December 1958 · the same newspaper
Riots Feared if Israelis Leave Gaza SuddenlyEvening Star · 17 February 1957 · the same newspaper
Plight of Refugees in Jordan DepictedChicago Sunday Tribune · 11 January 1959 · the same year
Plight Of The PalestinianOdessa American · 10 November 1959 · the same year

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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