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a little nugget d.w. made for mines. this is the erez crossing a checkpoint between israel and the gaza strip. close to 2000000 palestinians live on the other side of this spends. they've been launching isolated from the rest of the world for more than a decade. the

lives of the people who live here are shaped by the unresolved conflict between israelis and palestinians. mar winterize he is helping to preserve gaza's history. this box contains 1st across from the 1940 s. through the 1970 s. they pass of a huge collection from the former care home photo studio which was later in the care of terai and his family. this is a picture of anwar sadat when he was a young officer in gaza these photos were taken back. and here's a picture of mohamed nasheed the 1st president of the arab republic of egypt. are there to give this a shake of honor when he came to gather in 1959 that he was welcomed by the mayor

and some other local dignitaries. here shea meeting some egyptian officers who worked for the military administration . this is the train station the railroad that connected gaza and egypt station was later told down. from a once around the these folks has our treasure trove of gaza's history the negatives and prints reflect the culture and identity of the local residents. but only a few of the photographs have survived many were not properly stored and suffered significant damage from moisture some of the negatives will never developed. the date and location of the 1st graphs were not always recorded. in the. book.

the 1st graph we're taken by can see how young he was born in armenia in 1915 his mother fled the armenian genocide and took her infant son with her to syria later settled in jerusalem and in the early 1940 s. moved to gaza where he started working as a photographer. tell you about castle he started his photography

studio of 947. when the war broke on europe in 1900 many palestinians fled to gaza in the west bank. had experienced a similar situation in armenia. armenia. he considered gaza his 2nd home and started taking pictures of various events including the war. archive all of his photos so that future generations could see the. my wants are as he is trying to preserve this material because it provides a detailed account of gaza's rich and turbulent history with displacement and loss looming large in people's collective memory. can come and others took these dramatic photographs in 948. after the founding of the state of israel that same year the arab israeli war that followed almost immediately tens of thousands

of palestinian sort refuge and girls are. many were housed in refugee camps in 949 and united nations agency was created to provide humanitarian aid and economic support for the refugees. and. even today many refugees and their descendants still live in refugee camps like all shirty over the years they build houses and corrugated metal structures to replace their tents. sharif's or han knows this area well. he's a photographer and artist and spent many years working for the un's palestinian refugee

relief agency. these children old 5th generation refugees many of the palestinians demand that they be allowed to return to their former homes in what is now israel and the west bank. and on photographing throwing me. so that's gross i mean guilty. like many palestinian photographers who came before him sharif's or han believes that it's important to put a tray every day life in the stories that don't make the headlines. these crab fisherman congo far out to sea due to restrictions imposed by the israeli navy. to

see the real living creature as to my photographs are trying to portray the rich diversity of life in a drought for the few and not of all that most people know about gardens war destruction the blockade of the occupation all of for us involved in but there are other sides to the story what is life like on the street and at home for people who love and go to work oh. well i try to capture all those aspects of life in my photos of them and there are many for to go off. in ancient times gaza was an important mediterranean port city it was part of the awesome an empire until the end of world war one the british mandate of the palestine including gaza last it until 948 gaza was then administered by egypt until 967 and subsequently occupied by israel following the 6 day war. a form of palestinian

self-government was created in 1904 with the establishment of the palestinian authority in 2007 the radical islamic group hamas took over the gaza strip israel then stepped up its control of the gaza sea coast space and land routes citing security concerns and. there have been 3 wars and several smaller conflicts in gaza over the last decade palestinian militants sometimes fire rockets at nearby israeli towns and cities israel responds with strikes. palestinians continue to hope for the creation of their own independent state but

those hopes suffocating. the middle east peace process is currently story. of a new generation of palestinian photographers document the ongoing conflict as part of they were. but sharif sohan also believes that he and his colleagues have an obligation to make the history of his homeland through visual representation. through the lens of his camera he presents his own perspective on the daily lives of gaza residents and how they see themselves. as for him that's the price i'm i'm so. i deem a lot of people enjoy looking around the world for the rights that they go through family photo albums to find out how their parents or grandparents or. our town of

space both important and difficult and it's not limited to photographers i feel lesser and that task is to document the lives of palestinians today and for the next 100 years that's probably a lot easier today than it was 30 years or 7 years ago see you know series that i. gave how we need to put together an archive for documents the daily lives of palestinians from the beginning of the 20th century had only been there but how should we do that. how do we develop those concepts can work where shall this archive be stores that have them was that the goal is to help people learn about their history through this photograph and not just by hearing stories about what i said as it would get them. what color she reached her hand is a co-founder of the artist's collective called shabab baek which means windows in arabic. it goes up. because gaza

is essentially cut off communication with the outside world is always an issue. few people visit the strip and only a small number of gazans are able to travel by israel to the west bank or further afield. here's a link of an uneven we're on a club's does but we can't leave gaza to visit museums in london paris or rome or anywhere else for the photo to be assured of when we can even go to the west bank to see the works of other artists. what delaware's will be can learn how will work at the shop will be collected the same good bringing the world to us should it every month or whenever we can we host events were promised in new york for an artist talk to us on skype and we want to promote the exchange of cultures idea use and expertise. brought them bring all their problems to near artists even though clearly for those under the influence the because of it.

today my one to rozzi is visiting the traditional market district. almer a look tar is one of the oldest commercial streets in gaza city. this is where kanji how yon opened his photo studio in the 1940 s. . marwan tells these older brother maurice began working for him and learning the art of photography in the 1960 s. .

you know it's. still the water just going to give us. those. this is the i'm still sitting with. the me just going to show them what do you need learn. from a lot of them so let's move on get the bill done in the middle. of show us the looking down the hole in the family for. thousands of kilometers and a world away from gaza. first a graphic legacy is also being preserved in southwestern france. and he put time is the oldest daughter of the armenian photographer ana he was born and

raised in gaza. what memories i have of its happiness he was very and my mother was very welcomed in gaza she did not know how to speak arabic but she spoke french and a little bit of english that many of the family here is that is that what of what age she was 20 only they became very good fence together that we were very beautiful accepted to mean yes. and i have to tell grew up in gaza in the 1950 s. and sixty's when the area was under egypt in military administration later she studied in egypt she now have seen france with her husband. when she moved to france she brought along photographs of her family she left her

other possessions behind. these pictures of anna he'd taken by her father. i did go up stairs several times in fact to the dark and i would stand there with him. now that we are talking there is the order of the world these chemicals that are there you know all this back back it's of chemicals it's coming to me that i smell a field or that i remember that on. and i would sit there with him and i was always amazed seeing pictures appearing you know slowly slowly when after he had been printed and then put in the chemicals and the picture that starts to appear. they thought this studio was a busy place. only

a few people own their own cameras. many portraits from those days have been preserved for posterity. everybody went to have their portraits especially. the middle class and upper middle class and lower class they all went to her portrait everybody was photographed by my father i think. that my father or my uncle or at least. the un relief and works agency for palestine refugees has its own photo archive in gaza. where the photographs document the lives of refugees and their descendants

over the last 70 years. because. there's often a lot of detective work involved in archiving these photos he says that's particularly true of old if where there's little or no information on where they were taken all the people who put trade in them. in the old days they used a different system for archiving it and we do know today. families came to the studio the photographer took the pictures and made a final for each family so he marked the negatives with everyone's names and stored and. i look at a lot of ordinary negatives were filed without a date or any other information. so well as she was today photographers keep track

of everything. including the date and the place where the photo was taken. not how they used to do once. when i 1st found the archives everything was just tossed together. and especially if we use the same system for black and white and colorful we write down all of the details the name of the photographer of the year it was printed the copyright date and the credits. copyright it just. to look at. you know. together they look folk. clues as to that it has provenance or. or hurting or. was this for talkers are documented and preserving promised union used to be. for

trying to preserve the world yes they are carved their workers are and they documented history at the same time i was on duty. recently much of this archive was digitized since the early 1950 s. u.n. photographers have been documenting the lives of palestinian refugees and their descendants in lebanon syria jordan the west bank and gaza. time and time again the nights of gaza residents have been impacted by international events like the suez canal crisis in the 1956 which led to war between egypt and israel. in 56 that was the war that israel stayed in about 5 months until until march from. november to march but i remember details of that period as well in fact. as we live on the main street.

and the children all that i mean is of that with that mostly all that into the back of the house. they had houses near the christian church that. we were sent to because twas why the walls. gaza has lots of. houses but my father did that come because he wanted to stay atop and he kept picturing the. pictures of that i remember i don't have them. picture a lot. of the occupation of israel. found these photographs of dead civilians in one of his boxes. it's not known when where the photos were taken by whom. even before the

$956.00 war they were frequent clashes between israeli troops and palestinian militias along the border there were casualties on all sides including civilians. the war ended in november 1956. shortly afterwards the un sent peacekeeping troops to patrol both sides of the border between egypt and israel. they stayed there until the 6 day war broke out in june 1967. 57 when the united nations came in for the protection of gaza was. a few neath. became almost the fleas zone. for. egypt egyptians came to buy from gaza what they did not have. so god's a florist enormously enormously in that period that you could feel you could see.

and my father and work became even more fraught icing because he was the agent for . the company. for everything that graph in that paper of the of the films or and he was the distribute for all the other photographers and by then many other young palestinians that we're working with or either with my uncle or with coco or with my father that they started the businesses as well and all over the best. during this time a number of high profile international visitors travel to girls including sake of into 959 local newspapers reported that the communist revolution revisited the shotty refugee camp. hollywood actor you also visited gaza on behalf of the united

nations to call attention to the plight of refugees in the region. and in 1960 indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru arrived in gaza to visit indian troops who were part of the un peacekeeping force. gaza's landscape has changed considerably over the years. more winterize these trying to document this transformation. this is the grace of mari mosque the oldest and largest structure of its kind in the gaza strip.

the centuries old building was severely damaged in world war one and rebuilt in the 1920 s. . but some buildings have fallen into disrepair. like the former al nasr cinema. most of gaza's movie theaters were shut down in the late 1980 s. often due to political considerations they were seen as having a liberal influence. a number of historic buildings that were no longer used have been torn down like the former train station. here marwan is visiting the site of the railroad that once operated between gaza and egypt. for them was.

called. good job on the. other the. other one is among the largest. the last. you're going to. burn some fact that the days of train travel in gaza and long gone over the years restrictions on the movements of local residents have increased only specific groups of people such as those who are ill or are on business can apply for a permit to travel by israel but the application process as long and complicated. the rougher border crossing between gaza and egypt has been frequently shot down in recent years usually due to political tensions. those who want to travel to egypt

have to get permits from the hamas authorities and the egyptians. and the 51 jolly nice people who believe the material clayfield the english was telling us to look for help in. the film the muslim cleric who can long to. play with things

a man. i'm a mere hammy's is a rapper and music producer who collects old treasure grabs of gas a. few used some of these pictures in a music video he made 3 centuries. and lots of people want to leave gaza says i'm on but he's decided to stay. though i wouldn't let my friends some great photos of gaza on the internet as well. they show that people in the gaza strip and elsewhere in palestine used to have freedom while the mission was. in the community this makes me want to write songs about the miserable conditions that we live in today and how people here used to live a fulfilling all i see is about. the economy in gaza and palestine was growing both critical of us who feel they had trains and an airport but there's

no air power. in gaza today. it's just ridiculous that back in the sixty's we had an airport in the gaza strip. but now in 2020 we don't. know why senior. over half of gaza's residents are under the age of 30 most of them have never been outside the territory. i'm a mere ham he says come to see a friend he's also a musician they're going to try out a new song. was the one. for musicians in gaza don't earn a lot of money youth unemployment is that 60 percent full time jobs and young

people do odd jobs just to get by sometimes their families help out with money. we should. we should. hope over the course says get me out of this cough and it's not you who decides when i die i want to breathe that the right now i feel like i'm buried it's my right to experience life travel to laugh and to plan for the future and for high attrition but here in gaza i can't plan anything i don't know what's going to happen tomorrow well i still be alive how will there be a war i can't plan and i can't see the horizon. well. i was with the would. do what they would hope our luck was sick or with us it

wasn't going to console i like both has a new 1000000 innovation for good customer. and 2nd that it was good to know what was going to. fall. to the if it was a q that's had a thought this guy lived with the. record in the early settlements i'm older folks have told us that they were happy back then mosul they say they used to travel from gaza to nazareth and other places and there were no restrictions and dick but now there are border posts and problems based on religion and politics. the whole situation has changed you see as the kind of life that these older people enjoyed it just doesn't exist anymore hendrick won the cliff the moment of hell emotionally and now i haven't gone to the border crossing in a long time shot 15 years on sauce and i'm 26 years old so i should have done some

traveling by now i'm experienced other people are conscious of asking but i haven't . slept. well. i'm a mere ham is teaches a rap music oath at a local breakdown school the project is called girls the lives. red is not considered part of traditional arab music culture the artists distribute their music by the internet they have to get official permission to perform in public and the authorities usually don't grant it. sarah has written a text about life in gaza. zoom in the mike unless it.

is. playing another say. some law she said it was just that she would sooner do doesn't really want to sort of a sudden when she read the quote there were. others they miss has hired have secular ideas are all real for the sincerest that means they are friends of friends in the theater method prior to fit what i say said i want to have the consumer quote of the many who say. that the motion is a mistake i'm going to do for the truth whether it's a shitload will do the. letters a q. or. not it is a way has a high i have speculated that all my life doesn't fit a list that is the f.a.a. of a plane the fear nothing bad if it was a felony hi alison see them fundamentally. the chinese new slogan the. birth of. their heroine goes has

a nice city but life here is hard and all the complications so forth us about photobucket and there's no future for me here was failing and. mark went to rosie's on his way to the church of st paul furious in the house of gaza city. christians have played an important role in the life of gaza for centuries st push derrius is one of the oldest active churches in gaza city and belongs to the greek orthodox community of which my will. as a member. of the an estimated 1000 christians

live in gaza but that number is falling much like other years and many young christians are eager to leave the territory was. mo one has now stopped by his sister's home for a visit. after. their brother will race took over the photo business in the 1986 his studio became just as well known as its predecessor from the. cinema. the whole family love to work in photography and we all learned from maurice scandal my sister really enjoys photography she'd work in the darkroom all day long that was her hobby she developed photos that were taken all over gaza and at the fair only when i worked in the dark as a lot of young men weren't allowed to guarantee the privacy of the people in the

photographs at issue. yes kaushik and bennett. business at many traditional studios has fallen off in recent years these days more and more people are taking pictures with digital cameras. the clothes they studio over a decade ago. a lot has changed since then. almost part of some i put a few small children. in the circle and a few this might. just be. one. of. gaza's population is growing rapidly about 1800000 people live in the small territory which between egypt israel and the

mediterranean overcrowding has become a serious problem. to see and shore up the cost of gaza so. local people love to come here and take a break it's the only place they say where they can get away from the stress and problems of daily life. to have a bit to have sharif so when a chance to capture the mood of the city usual in his photographs the people here seem to be enjoying themselves as they would on any beach anywhere in the world. but. it.

sure as hell and as jack wilshere see it was everything to ease it provides the air we breathe in freedom and security it's our future which is our blue horizon pushing. the. other you paternal still has strong ties to gaza through her fond memories of the past and images of her father she also remembers the friends she made when she lived there she still stays in touch with one of those friends.

but then he has not been to gaza for more than a decade because of the travel restrictions so the 2 friends talked by phone. this summer and them look but by then. i. could give a. shit . about what happened. with the bed when. me with the between cost him sitting next to live as.

we speak like we did now just and you think she's telling me that this scene in canada has made a wonderful luba ok we try to live as if life is not my. she lives as if life is not mine and i encourage. and you do it can we keep all the time and we do that. in spite of all the beautiful things i said about because old might. my joy. and my happiness and it's true that it was

a region that was constantly in the water constantly in changing changing city station situations and all. yes it. would be very good that somebody or something we put things together to keep the history is the history that we know of. and the documents are there i mean the prints are there somewhere that would represent a part of history of. and you take a history and a movie history. the photos from gaza connect people from different places and from different generations. like my one to

rozzi with his treasure trove a photograph they all want to preserve this material for future generations. their common goal is to keep alive the history of gaza and the cultural identity of its inhabitants. how they here miss what the town and the batters feel these negatives and prints are so important to me because this is our heritage and our civilization and have them all over we have left our values photographs of the boat everything else was destroyed in the wars and conflicts we miss were the one of these negatives and prints mean everything to me about clearly on the.

has been working in italy's fields for many years he has no legal protection no rights and barely enough to live on. in june a new law came into effect in. for him and about 350000 other migrant workers it meant hope but their dreams of legal status to have been dashed some goods are in

europe. in 30 minutes on d w. to the point of strong opinions clear physicians international perspective such. a conflict it's really us in germany over the old streets or the gas pipeline linking germany with russia looks that's a boil over the americans say it's pandering to putin threatening drastic action find out more come to the point. to the point. of the team 19 minutes on t.w. . they've been robbed of their soul that's what a people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe . these thefts left wounds that have yet to feel

much should be done with the stolen or from africa. the stolen soul starts september 7th on g.w. . cut. this is the the view news live from berlin belarus releases thousands of jailed protesters officials apologizing as well after war during their release some 7000 people were detained during a police crackdown on demonstrations protests while the country's disputed presidential election also coming out. and historic vote.