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No. 1532, Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. Too little, too late! The tiny Arab refugee baby, shown here in his mother's arms, is now dead. When discovered by Christian welfare workers, he was already a living skeleton, his tiny body wasted from the ravages of malnutrition. Though emergency food of high nutritive quality was immediately supplied the child was already too weak to respond. There are many Arab children like these among Palestinian refugees, and it is only occasionally that Christian relief can save them, this mother, clad in Western church-contributed clothing, is now heartbroken, because the little one which had become so dear to her, especially under the care she had so desperately rendered with little means, is now gone from her miserable life. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees, Palestinian Arab., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83452
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No. 1531. Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. To Christian refugee workers in Tyre this Arab woman is known as the "Thankful woman." She appears frequently at the office door, with one, two, or three children in her arms or hanging to her skirt, seeking aid. Whatever she received food or clothing, or if nothing but sympathy for her miserable condition, she is always profusely thankful. The woman lives with her family in a water tower, has been robbed by night, nearly devoured by insects, and suffers from the perennial need of all Arab refugees hunger and lack of clothing. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83394
Description:
"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.]
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--West Bank., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
West Bank., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83383

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