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النكبة – اللد والرملة

فيديو أرشيفي نادر، حقيقي وتم تلوينه، يوثق تهجير أهالي اللد والرملة خلال نكبة 1948

مشاهد تعكس مأساة التهجير، وصمود الشعب الفلسطيني الذي لم ينس جذوره، وترك أثرًا خالدًا في تاريخ الوطن

The Nakba – Lydd and Ramla

A rare, authentic archival video, colorized, documenting the displacement of the people of Lydd and Ramla during the Nakba of 1948.

At least 50,000 people were violently forced out of the Palestinian city of Lydd during the creation of Israel, 75 years ago.

These are some of the survivors who are living with the consequences of the ethnic cleansing and massacres.

Station road in Lydd, Kent, England, UK

With the return of peace to Europe in the mid-1940s and the growth in car ownership in Britain, a rather niche problem, but a problem nevertheless, was how to get your car across the English Channel in order to use it to motor around Europe. The only option in an era before the Channel Tunnel and the development of roll-on roll-off (RoRo) ferries was to have your pride and joy winched on to a…

‘…the century-and-a-half old George Hotel in the High Street here was once used by smugglers and there used to be a secret passage leading to the nearby church…’

Lydd

Free July 23rd: Ghosts of Kent: UK/US