القدس الشريف: قصة نزوح المرحوم شوكت عبد الرزاق العسلي من بيته في حي البقعه التحتى -- المزيد في قسم التعليقات

Jerusalem - The house of Shawkat Abdul Razak Assali - Shawkat Abdul Razak Assali was a textile importer with a store in the Old City. He built this house in the early 1930s for his wife Widad and his five children Samira, Siham, Abed, Nahla and Yassar. In 1938 he added a second floor as well as a rooftop apartment, where his mother and brother moved in. Following the infamous Deir Yassin massacre and after a bullet went through the balcony door of the parents' bedroom, the father decided to send his wife and his five kids to stay with his mother-in-Law in Damascus until things to settled down. the father rented out a small apartment in the Jordanian part of Jerusalem while the house had been confiscated by the Custodian of Absentee Property. In 1950, the mother and the children came back from Damascus to be united again with the father.
Address: Hamagid Street