Wijdan and Resalah Shomali Sitting on their House Furniture where their Family was Displaced to in Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp in Jericho, May 1980
Following the decision to displace Yakoub Shomali's family to Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp on 14 May 1980, this photograph shows Wijdan and Resalah Shomali (the daughters of the collection's owner) sitting on their house furniture where their family was displaced to in Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp in Jericho. It is mentioned that Resalah Shomali was studying at Beir Zeit University while Wijdan was a teacher at Beit Fajjar Girls Elementary School when she was fired due to her brother, Tareq's, arrest. 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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