Wafa Amr: 60 years on, refugees visit lost Jerusalem homes
Sun May 11, 2008 6:09pm EDT
By Wafa Amr
JERUSALEM, May 11 (Reuters) - Eighty-year-old Beatrice Habesch sobbed when she caught sight of her father’s house in Jerusalem on Sunday and remembered how it was taken over by Jews in 1948.
“This is our house! This is my house!” she shouted as fellow Palestinians held her back from running towards the building.
Some 300 Palestinians marked 60 years since Israel’s founding in May 1948 with a protest walk through affluent Jewish parts of west Jerusalem that were once home to many Arabs. They wore black T-shirts with “This is my House” printed on the back.
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