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PALESTINIANS

See also Palestine pre1948 and West Bank occupation

221534          15:22:12 - 15:26:38            1948c SIL       B/W    [UNESCO Beirut Conference; Arab Refugees ca 1948]

UN flags on poles in front of UNESCO building, tilt down to park; VIPs walk past, man waves at camera, building seen behind.  Police; couple to camera from car w/ flag on fender, up stairs. 

15:22:35  POV from car past Arabs along sidewalk w/ backs to camera, another in street looking at camera.

15:22:40  Woman walking between two men in fez.  Orthodox priests in robes; other Catholic priests walking w/ well-dressed crowd.  Orientals & others.

15:23:01  UNESCO on building entrance, tilt down to police.  MCU men in fez.  Int. w/ men standing on podium.  Standing men including sheiks.

15:23:13  Man at microphone from below front, LS, CU, LMS holding speech.  Other shots.  Arab sheiks in robes wearing headphones.  Turkish delegation; Libyans.  MCU President speaking (MOS).  Syrian delegation.  Man at board:  UNESCO Beyrouth Expositions.

15:23:57  Woman at mimeograph printing presses.  Women typing at desks.  Sign re 44 nations have signed UNESCO charter.

15:24:17  Ext of buildings w/ UNESCO flags on poles, parking w/ drivers by cards.  Soldiers.

15:24:33  Men wearing fez down steps past military lining sidewalk.  Christian church w/ plane overhead, tilt down to street.  Stone wall & arabs out w/ boys.  Old men talking by wall.  Arabs gathered in courtyard looking at camera.  Various groups talking, kids eating from ??.  Baker passes out bread to kids.  Arab street sign.  Man w/ peg leg walking w/ crutches; kid w/ kettle w/ water on head.

15:25:31  Minarets of mosque, arabs in front.  Man walks thru w/ jugs on poles.  Refugees & tents.  Arab families beside tents posing; women & children.  man giving clothes tor kids to woman beside tent.  Kids run out of tents to camera.  Old people sit on ground talking.

Palestine Refugees; Post Israel Independence (?);

 

221547          14:08:13 - 14:11:41            1950s B/W    Sil

[1950s Arab Refugee Camp]

Arab refugee camp of tents, washing hanging on lines.  Old man walking in sand, kids & families in crowded area between tents.  Families receiving supplies.  Clothes, pans of food given out; milk served from behind wall by two boys into pans & buckets.  Kids drinking.

14:09:26  Barrel marked UNICEF rolled off truck.  People lined up given supplies, blankets, flour.  Men given paper for food.  Men filling sacks from bulk flour bin.

14:10:18  Barbed wire fence, people & burrows behind.  Man checking people thru gate.  CU man signing papers.  Food given out, men walk w/ rations.  Rolling barrels into warehouse.  Men mixing water & powdered milk (?).  More distribution as man fans flies.

Near East; Palestine; United Nations Aid;

 

LN 501-722  23:18:28 - 23:19:25            1950   Gaza     B/W    SD

Egypt (Gaza Arab Refugee Camp, Nov50)

Palestine Arab refugees in tents in Egyptian refugee encampment.  Kids, barbed wire fence; man reading to group standing.  Men receiving registration cards.

23:18:52  Egyptian army passing out clothing, flour, rice.  Kids lined up; milk given out & kids drinking.  Women & children.

 

221007          23:14:25 - 23:23:50            1950   Gaza     B/W    SD

Sands of Sorrow [Part 1]

[Film introduced by Dorothy Thompson.  Film deals with the plight of Palestinian Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.]  Tent camp in Gaza Strip.  Refugees living in squalor.  Mothers and children. 

23:17:13  UNICEF distribution truck - Egyptian soldiers distribute blankets and food.  Refugees queue for help. 

23:19:48  Food sent by UN loaded onto trucks in Gaza.  Refugees in relief centres behind barbed wire.  Registration cards checked. 

23:21:13  Man who was once Palestinian Mayor but is now refugee queues for flour.  Men out of hut carrying ration of food.  Barrel holding powdered milk with UNICEF on top rolled off truck.  Milk powder mixed with water in mixing sheds prior to distribution.  Milk ladled into jugs.  Children queue for milk; CU children drinking. 

23:23:33  Arabs round camp fire - cooking pot.  Arab woman repairing / sewing clothes.

 

221007          23:23:51 - 23:31:40            1950   Gaza/Bethlehem/Jerusalem   B/W    SD

Sands of Sorrow [Part 2]

[Film deals with the plight of Palestinian Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.] 

Refugees [20% of whom are Christian Arabs] with Lebanese priest Father Shukri Surur (Srur) who every night allows the most frail to sleep in his monastery in Gaza.  Arab girl watering seeds which have been supplied by Father Surur.  Priest handing out vegetables to Arab children.

23:24:57  Desert - Olive groves - Bethlehem - Church of the Nativity - Arab refugee camps.  Church of All Nations.  Orphanage for homeless Arab refugee children.  Arab woman Miss Hussini (Husseini) who has converted her home into sanctuary for 125 children - outdoor school - classes.  Boys tending garden.  Boys playing football. 

23:27:25  Children at long tables eating.  Crying baby.  Children sleeping two in a bed.   Women refugees cutting out material to make clothes - at sewing machines.  Women folding children’s clothes.  Little boy refugee given new clothes.

23:30:02  Old City of Jerusalem - refugees working in shops - shoe repairs / cobblers.  Refugees making tin cups for children in plumber’s shop.  Carpenters.  Desert road through hills - signpost Jerusalem - Dead Sea - Jericho.

23:31:24  Mount of Temptation - refugee camps near Jordan River.

 

221007          23:31:41 - 23:43:01            1950   1950   Gaza/Amman   B/W    SD

Sands of Sorrow [Part 3]

[Film deals with the plight of Palestinian Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.] 

Amman - capital of Jordan - houses on hillside.  UN relief experts with map on bonnet of car.  Ruins of ancient Roman amphitheatre which has become home for Arab refugees.  Refugees living on hillside.  23:33:02  Children at school - outdoor or in tents.  Mass of children playing.  Squalid tents. 

23:34:38  Women walking for water w/ cans on head.  Tents sprayed with DDT insecticide.  Mother tending sick child.  Children with malnutrition - swollen stomachs [died a week later]. 

23:35:42  Refugees vaccinated against smallpox and typhoid.  Doctors and nurses.  Hospital tents - CUs patients.  Muslim Arab at prayer.  CU faces of all ages.  Funeral procession w/ Arab men.  Crying babies.  Child being examined by doctor.  Penicillin injection given.  Mother and new born baby.  VS Arab children.

23:39:49  Dorothy Thompson says refugee numbers have grown to over a million -  appeals for relief.  Mentions various religious organisations / churches who are helping.  Shots of The American Middle East Relief organisation giving aid.  Appeals for clothes for refugees.

 

LN 501-755  09:59:15 - 10:09:42            1948, 68, 70c           B/W    Sd

Palestinian refugee camps.  CU feet walking in mud, pull back to show food stall; views of camp & rain.  Water draining in ditches.  Tin shacks; man riding burro.

10:00:08  Titles.

10:00:18  Jerusalem, Old City w/ Arabs moving down stepped lane.  View over rooftops.  LS, MS Dome of The Rock.  Orthodox Jews praying by Wailing Wall.  British troops (British Mandate period  194?) driven thru street in back of truck.  British soldier searching arab man on sidewalk, children watch.

10:01:36  British soldiers across street w/ batons & rifles.

10:01:42  Soldiers pick thru wreckage of bomb set on corner, smoking debris.  Firemen into buildings w/ fire hose.  Bomb damage filling street, men clear wreckage.  1948 Arabs w/ rifles in rubble-like stones on hillside watching.

10:02:32  Side POV along ridge in Jordan , view out from front window along paved road.  CU camel, Bedouin tent; Bedouins & Arabs.

10:03:17  LS of valley, camp w/tents across bottom.  Other camp & bus w/ arrivals off w/ bags.  People carrying bags among tents.  CUs people, children, kids.  Woman walk w/ parcels on heads.  UNRWA trucks.  Aid unloaded from airplane into truck.  CUs People & children watching.  Receiving food in bags, boxes measured out from inside trailer (?), carrying sacks of food.    Cement mixer & pouring concrete foundation, asbestos sheeting, men put up houses.

10:06:52  Man writing Arabic script on blackboard in school; kids reciting; woman teacher & girls.  Palestine flag.

10:07:10  Women of Al-Fatah, aka Al Fatah movement w/ uniforms & rifles  Boys w/ bayonet practicing military training.  Crossing rope bridge; men of Al Fatah doing obstacle training in forest thru flames; practicing martial arts.  Firing rifles & anti-tank equipment & rifles in canyon.  Throwing genades.  Troops march w/ city housing on hillside behind.

10:09:34  Boys marching w/ guns & end credits.

 

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