"We want to go home," an Arab schoolboy writes on the blackboard in a refugee camp in Hebron. This longing to return to homes in Palestine is the dominant, almost-exclusive desire of 850,000 Arab refugees in camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon (except in Israel, where their former homes are). (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.) [Published in April 1952 Presbyterian Survey.]

World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)

1952
April 1952

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches

Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Church work with refugees.
Refugees--Palestine.
Refugees--West Bank.
Refugees, Palestinian Arab.

West Bank.
Palestine.
Asia--West Bank--Hebron

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