The New York Times · 31 March 2002

CP-2002-059

Grimly, Palestinians Stay Tuned to News

Neil MacFarquhar

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Transcribed from the clipping

“They restored the indoor graveyard here last year. Hundreds of dead, stacked sometimes 10 to a grave, lie under newly poured raw concrete floors in what used to be a mosque.”

Context added by this archive

Shatila, twenty years after the massacre, watching Jenin on television. MacFarquhar writes the floor before he writes the broadcast, and the floor is the whole history of the camp in one sentence.

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"Grimly, Palestinians Stay Tuned to News," The New York Times, 31 March 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-059. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-059

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