Jerusalem - القدس الشريف: After he finished building his house late 1920s in Talbiya neighbourhood in occupied West Jerusalem, Shukri Al Jamal has gathered his family to take a photo in front of the house that would include his wife, his sisters and his daughters to remain as a memory for their grandchildren who were supposed to be playing in the yards of this house.

بعد أن أنهى بناء منزله أواخر العشرينيات في حي الطالبية غربي القدس المحتلة، جمع شكري الجمل عائلته لالتقاط صورة تذكارية أمام المنزل تجمع زوجته وأخواته وبناته كي تبقى ذكرى للأحفاد الذين كان من المفترض أن يمرحوا في ساحاته لاحقاً..
بعد النكبة وتحديداً في الستينيات تم تشييد ثلاثة طوابق فوق المبنى الأصلي، استخدم فيه باطون أبيض حاولوا تقريب شكله من الحجر الأصلي ولكنهم فشلوا وأدت هذه المحاولات والاضافات إلى تشويه التصميم الأساسي، ففي ذلك الوقت كانت المحاجر والبنّاؤون المهرة في الشطر الشرقي من المدينة والضفة الغربية التي احتُلّت تماماً لاحقاً.

لم يكن يعلم شكري الجمل أنه بعد عشرين عاماً على بناء المنزل والتقاط هذه الصورة التذكارية ستطرد عائلته من منزلها ويهجّر كل السكان الفلسطينيين من الحي قسراً لتسكنه عائلات إسرائيلية نامت على أسرّتهم وطهت وأكلت في صحونهم وأوانيهم.

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المصادر:
- ديفيد كيورنجر
- ملتقط الصورة بالأسود والأبيض غير معروف.

After he finished building his house late 1920s in Talbiya neighbourhood in occupied West Jerusalem, Shukri Al Jamal has gathered his family to take a photo in front of the house that would include his wife, his sisters and his daughters to remain as a memory for their grandchildren who were supposed to be playing in the yards of this house.

After Nakba and the occupation of west Jerusalem, and in particular in the 1960s, three storeys were built on top the original building, where white concrete was used, but they failed at imitating the original style of the building, these attempts has caused deformation in the building, noting that at the time of building the house, prominent builders and good quarries were mainly located in the eastern part of the city as well as in the west bank which was entirely occupied at a later stage (in 1967).

Shukri didn’t know that, after 20 years from building his house and taking this picture, his family would be expelled from their house along with the entire Palestinian population of the neighborhood and west Jerusalem and to be replaced with israeli settlers who slept on their beds and cooked and eat with their utensils.