Hickory Daily Record · Hickory, North Carolina · 24 April 2017
CP-2017-002
Plight of Palestinian refugees now spans 5 generations
The Associated Press, Jerash Camp, Jordan
Transcribed from the clipping
“As a boy, Palestinian Abdullah Abu Massoud fled the war over the birth of Israel in 1948 and sought refuge in the nearby Gaza Strip. As an adult, Abu Massoud was displaced again when Israeli forces captured Gaza, along with the West Bank and east Jerusalem, in 1967. He escaped to Jordan, where he has been living in a refugee camp for 50 years.
Now 77, Abu Massoud is the white-haired patriarch of a refugee family spanning five generations, including a great-great-granddaughter. The future looks bleak. ‘Fifty years have passed without a step forward,’ said Abu Massoud.
‘We don’t belong here.’… More than 700,000 Palestinians were uprooted at the time… Today, 5.3 million Palestinians and their descendants are registered with UNRWA in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza Strip… A 29-year-old grandson of Bassama and Abdullah, Alaa Abu Awad, has never set foot in historic Palestine… He has tacked a Palestinian flag to the wall of his shop in Jerash camp.
‘It’s the flag of my homeland,’ said Abu Awad.”
Context added by this archive
Three named Palestinians across five photographed generations, and a man of 29 who has never seen the country on the flag in his shop.
Cite this clipping
"Plight of Palestinian refugees now spans 5 generations," Hickory Daily Record, 24 April 2017, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-002
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