Brother Tahseen, his wife, his four children and his aged parents live in Beit Fajjar village near Bethlehem on the West Bank of the Jordan River. His family is originally from Ajjur village. This village suffered a brutal attack from Zionist paramilitaries in 1948. Most inhabitants perished in the attack, but brother Tahseen’s grandfather and his family escaped to Beit Fajjar. Landless and poor, they mostly subsisted on the meagre assistance of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA.

 

Brother Tahseen, his wife, his four children and his aged parents live in Beit Fajjar village near Bethlehem on the West Bank of the Jordan River. His family is originally from Ajjur village. This village suffered a brutal attack from Zionist paramilitaries in 1948. Most inhabitants perished in the attack, but brother Tahseen’s grandfather and his family escaped to Beit Fajjar. Landless and poor, they mostly subsisted on the meager assistance of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA.

In the year 1948, Palestinians were uprooted from twenty cities and about four hundred villages; about seven hundred thousand Palestinians i.e. 66% of the residents of Palestine became homeless; this represented the complete deterioration of the Palestinian society with all its components and bases; it lead to the emergence of a new phenomenon in the Palestinian society which is the Palestinian Refugees Camps that spread in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and neighbouring countries: Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon and the rest of the world. One of these camps is Arroub Refugee Camp. These camps which bear witness to the catastrophe, homelessness and uprooting of Palestinians from their lands and homeland symbolize their daily sufferings on all levels: cultural, social, economic, and political. They still exist up till this present moment waiting for a political decision to put an end to their pain and suffering. In the human history there is not any crime which is as brutal as the crime of forcing Palestinians out of their lands in 1948 at the hands of the Occupiers; this was later called the Palestinian Nakba (Setback) .

Sister Lamia Kawamleh – JD 490.00 – GB£ 435.30 – USD 688.90

Lamia has finished now her second year in the Department of Business Administration, she has shown an obvious educational progress since the Lady Fatemah started to sponsor her, according to the certificate of the Department Chairman. The availability of her university tuition made a difference in her academic achievement (84%) comparison to (80%) in the previous semester, since last year she was very worried about the continuation of her education taken into consideration that bad conditions her family faced. She promised to be a hardworking student in her academic journey to enable her achieving her goals.