CROSSFIREARABIA – The world-famous Jaffa oranges brought all the way from the Palestinian city of Yafa to be sold in the holy places of Jerusalem in 1937.
CROSSFIREARABIA – The world-famous Jaffa oranges brought all the way from the Palestinian city of Yafa to be sold in the holy places of Jerusalem in 1937.
CROSSFIREARABIA – The Gaza Civil Defense uncovered the remains of 12 martyrs from the lowest depth of a wreckage of a house destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces during its genocidal war on the people of Gaza. The remains were uncovered on Al Zaytoun neighborhood, south Gaza City. The remains belonged to the Al Batnigy family in the Asqoulah area in Al Zaytoun. Civil defense teams are currently on a campaign to uncover the remains of people who died under wreckage with the latest being 112 belonging to the Al Huseinya and Abu Sharieh families. The Israeli army committed hundreds of massacres in its mass war through the deliberate destruction of houses knowing full-well that they were full of people with today’s total martyrs standing at about 74,000 people and 174,000 injured according to the Palestine Information Center.
Reem Arkan writes:
“This is my new painting. It is titled “In Her Hand, a Red Homeland”. She explains in her eyes you can see Palestine; in the palm of her hand there is a watermelon; And the red, is the story of a land that will never die. She clutches the watermelon as if it were a homeland, And she guards in her heart the olive tree of memories.
O girl of the land, O color of Palestine,
You and the watermelon are the story of a people… and the story of steadfastness.”
Arkan is from Gaza, she is a teacher and has graduated from Al Aqsa University, hence the beautiful style in painting and words.