Evening Star · Washington, District of Columbia · 25 December 1959
CP-1959-004
Christmas in the Gaza Strip
Transcribed from the clipping
“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.
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"Christmas in the Gaza Strip," Evening Star, 25 December 1959, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1959-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1959-004
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