Case Highlights Plight of Palestinian Refugees
By JONATHAN COOK
CounterPunch
"Salwa Salam Qupty clutches a fading sepia photograph of a young Palestinian man wearing a traditional white headscarf. It is the sole memento that survives of her father, killed by a Jewish militia during the 1948 war that established Israel.
“He was killed 60 years ago as he was travelling to work,” she said, struggling to hold back the tears. “My mother was four months pregnant with me at the time. This photograph is the closest I’ve ever got to him.”
Six decades on from his death, she has never been allowed to visit his grave in Galilee and lay a wreath for the father she never met....."
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