Jabalia refugee camp a center of resistance to the Israelis

Karin Laub, Associated Press, Jabalia, Occupied Gaza Strip

Transcribed from the clipping

“‘When my sons go outside to demonstrate, I’m afraid for them, but I’m not going to stop them,’ said Neama Khalil Abu Sisi, 55, whose son, Hatem, 17, was killed in a clash with soldiers the previous week… In the home of Mohammed Yousef Abu Sisi… 13 people share four rooms… Abu Sisi, 55, works as a stone cutter in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, earning $19 a day. His son, Ghazi, 31, who holds a degree in accounting from Cairo University, is a day laborer in Tel Aviv.”

Context added by this archive

The fullest portrait of a single Palestinian family in this collection: a mother, a father with his trade and his wage, a dead seventeen-year-old, and a thirty-one-year-old accountant carrying bricks. The camp is given as 55,000 people with four doctors seeing 400 to 500 patients a day.

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"Jabalia refugee camp a center of resistance to the Israelis," Morning News, 20 December 1987. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1987-012. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1987-012