A people made homeless (1950)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-middle-east/sands-of-sorrow---1950.html
By: Brasscheck TV
Sept 27, 2011
On the plight of the refugees from the Arab-Israeli War. Dorothy Thompson speaks on the refugee problem. Refugees live in tents in the Gaza Strip, are given blankets and food by Egyptian soldiers, and receive flour from UNICEF. A Lebanese priest conducts services. Refugees work as plumbers, carpenters, tailors, and shoemakers in the city of Jerusalem. Doctors vaccinate refugees against disease.
Shows the squalid living conditions in refugee camps, starving children and emphasizes the hopeless condition of the refugees.
Shows the squalid living conditions in refugee camps, starving children and emphasizes the hopeless condition of the refugees.
Producer: Council for the Relief of Palestine Arab Refugees
There is an astonishing amount of ignorance about the basic facts of the so-called Arab-Israeli conflict.
This footage was shot in the late 1940s to educate the public about the plight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had been made homeless as a result of the violence and intimidation that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel.
What most Palestinians thought would be a temporary dislocation lasting only a few weeks at most became permanent. Homeless with just the clothes on their backs, they were left in the desert without food, water, and medical care to die.
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