Reference :
V-P-PS-N-00043-04
Caption :
Sidon. Family of Palestinian refugees living in a cave near the sea and supported by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA)
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
reserved users only
Description :
At the back of the photo:
UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY N° 615
In the Sidon area, less than half of the refugees live in camps. The rest have sought shelter in abondoned mosques, caves, old huts among the ruins of the old crusader fortress of Sidon.
In the exodus from Palestine, this family got separated from the rest of their village, who fled en masse to Sidon, Lebanon. Finding themselves isolated among stangers in Jordan, they took refuge in a camp near Amman. But after a time, they could not bear the separation from their own people, and set forth once more on the road to find them.
When they reached Sidon, they found this cave by the sea where they have lived ever since. Saïd, the father got employment for a few months with a fisherman, but after that he could find no work and they were practically starving when Mr. Raymond Courvoisier, UNRWA representative for Lebanon, chanced upon the cave when examining nearby Phoenicians inscriptions. He immediately authorised them to draw U.N. Agency rations, while their case for admission to a [..] camp is being investigated.
Original material :
negative
Resolution :
3500x2423
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
black and white
