Tuesday, July 27, 2010

62 years of separation..Finally united..

Palestinian family reunites in Jordan after 62 years
Amman, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) Two Palestinian brothers met for the first time after a separation that lasted for 62 years since the catastrophe of 1948 (Nakba) last Friday, in the Jordanian capital Amman. The “Gulf Times” newspaper in its Monday editions reported: "The elder brother, Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiz (82 years), met his younger brother, Mohammed (75 years) at the house of a relative of the family in the area ‘Tabarbour’ east of Amman. " The brothers said that they were separated as a result of the 1948 catastrophe, the widowed took some of her sons to Iraq, Mahmoud left with his mom and kept on moving till he settled in Sweden where he got married and now has 9 children. Mohammed stayed in Acre, he got married and had children.

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