The Palestine you don't know

حيث يمكنك أن تجد سببا آخر لتقع في حب فلسطين - جمالها

where you can find another reason to fall in love with Palestine - it’s beauty !

first picture : Gaza street scene , Palestine (  Matson Photo Service, Library of Congress/1918-1935)

Second : Gaza’s municipality building. (Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection /1939-1947 )

Horseman overlooking the village of Daburiyyah on the slopes of Mount Tabor, Galilee , Palestine . ( R: Khalil Raad collection/ 1876-1918)

Horseman overlooking the village of Daburiyyah on the slopes of Mount Tabor, Galilee , Palestine . ( R: Khalil Raad collection/ 1876-1918)

A soccer match in the Palestinian quarter of Bab al-Zahirah (Herod’s Gate), outside the Old City walls to the northeast - perhaps the earliest photograph of a sports event in Jerusalem. Note the Muslim tomb in the foreground, extreme right.(from Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection/ 1876-1918) .

A soccer match in the Palestinian quarter of Bab al-Zahirah (Herod’s Gate), outside the Old City walls to the northeast - perhaps the earliest photograph of a sports event in Jerusalem. Note the Muslim tomb in the foreground, extreme right.(from Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection/ 1876-1918) .

First picture : The Dome of the Rock as seen from the al-Aqsa Mosque , Jerusalem , Palestine . In the foreground is al-Kas (the Cup), a fountain for ritual ablutions. (from Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection/ 1876-1918)

Second picture : Interior of the Dome of the Rock (from R: Khalil Raad collection/ 1876-1918)

The Jerusalem clock rings in London after it was decorating Jaffa Gate !  Its’ bells were heard every hour, but General Allenby ordered that the clock must be dismantled and put it in the Museum of London in 1922 later its engine was transferred to Big Ben clock after Britain occupied Palestine !! source: the Palestinian researcher Ahmed Marwat .

The Jerusalem clock rings in London after it was decorating Jaffa Gate !

 Its’ bells were heard every hour, but General Allenby ordered that the clock must be dismantled and put it in the Museum of London in 1922 later its engine was transferred to Big Ben clock after Britain occupied Palestine !!

source: the Palestinian researcher Ahmed Marwat .