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Adam Sella

The photo archive bringing pre-Nakba Jerusalem alive

Watermelon market outside Jaffa Gate at the base of the Citadel walls, Jerusalem, 1900 [British Mandate Jerusalemites (BMJ) Photo Library]

A Palestinian girl in traditional attire picks olives from a tree. A father and his three children dressed in their Sunday best pose for the camera.

These photos might otherwise be largely unremarkable, but they are part of a digital archive of life in Palestine before the Nakba, or Catastrophe, of 1948 when the creation of Israel led to the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from villages and towns that their ancestors had lived in for centuries.

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