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While “Talks” Continue the Reality of Refugees Remains Unchanged
Photos, PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, December 13th, 2003

The expulsion and brutality experienced by Palestinians refugees is the longest of any other refugee group in the world—they continue to be denied justice and their homeland during all talks, dialogue, or accords. The Occupation Forces continue unhindered to carry out massive incursions in an attempt to further expel Palestinians in refugee camps throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This page, a combination of photos and a caricature, bring forth the harrowing reality in which Palestinian refugees in Rafah continue to live as they set up refugee tents atop of their demolished refugee homes.

Above: This caricature from Naser Jafari appeared in the daily Palestinian newspaper, Al Quds, on Dec 12th, 2003. The tent is labeled “Rafah” while the script reads “One day it is a truce; Another day it is Geneva; And another day it is the dialogue; As for us, nothing changes”.

Above: Tents in the neighborhood Brazil, a block of the Rafah Refugee Camp, over the remains of a demolished building in which 10 families lived; the building was demolished during an incursion into Rafah in the second week of October 2003. Photo taken Dec. 8th, 2003.

Above: A family of nine refugees in Yibna, a block in the Rafah Refugee Camp, continues to survive in this tent—on top of the rubble of their demolished home. Their home was targeted and destroyed by the Occupation Forces during an incursion into Rafah in the second week of October 2003. Photo taken Dec. 8th, 2003.

Above: Another view of the family of nine refugees in Yibna who live in a tent within their destroyed home. Photo taken Dec. 8th, 2003.