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Georgette Shomali Inspecting the Place where the Israeli Occupational Forces Displaced them to in Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp in Jericho, May 1980

  This photograph shows Georgette Shomali (the wife of the collection's owner) inspecting the place where the Israeli Occupational Forces displaced them to in Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp in Jericho, pieces of her house's furniture can be seen all around her.  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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May 1980

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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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0069.07.0022
Georgette Shomali Inspecting the Place where the Israeli Occupational Forces Displaced them to in Ein el-Sultan Refugee Camp in Jericho, May 1980

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