A Photograph of Yakoub Shomali and his Family in the Place they were Displaced to in Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp
This photograph shows Yakoub Shomali and his two daughters, Wijdan (a teacher at Beit Fajjar Girls Elementary School) standing to her father's right, in the middle is a person in solidarity with the displaced family, next to him is Resalah Shomali (a student at Beir Zeit University) and to her right is her mother, Georgette Shomali. It is mentioned that on 13 May 1980, the Israeli Occupation forces accused Tareq Shomali of assaulting the Military Commander's jeep by throwing stones at it, the arrested him, tortured him and caused him harm that led to extensive injuries that put him in the hospital, then the Occupational forces decided to displace Yakoub Shomali's family from their house in Beit Sahour to the abandoned Ein el-Sultan refugee camp in Jericho.
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Shomali, Fares "The Yakoub Shomali Collection". Archival inventory, 2018, the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.;Shiv, Ze'eb. "the investigation was hesitant and slow: new tendencies in the Israeli military ruling in the occupied territories the Israeli Chief of Staff take the powers of the Minister of Defence into his own hands". el-Fagr newspaper, 9 June 1980 ;Ozrail, Samar. "The Yakoub Shomali Collection", archival inventory (printed transcription of photographs by Majdi Shomali), 22-23 March 2021, the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.
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