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March 21, 2004

 

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Nablus Tent City, West Bank, Israel, 1952

Photograph by John Scofield

"To shelter Palestinian refugees after Israel's 1948 War of Independence, the UN and volunteer agencies raised a tent city near Nablus. Six decades later the refugees remain."


—From "Lines in the Sand: Deadly Times in the West Bank and Gaza," October 2002, National Geographic magazine

 

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