Michel HONORIN is located at the "Beach Camp" (Al-Shati camp), one of the 8 Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and home to nearly 60,000 people. The journalist reports on the situation in the camp through images of the refugees' daily lives, with many children on the streets.
In a Palestinian refugee camp near Amman in Jordan, Roger LOUIS interrogates a father who lives in a requisitioned and overloaded classroom: he says (in Arabic): "Our only hope is to return home, if the Israelis prevent us, we will make war, we are ready to live here the time it takes but Palestine is our country, we are ready to die to return". He shows his boys from the greatest to the youngest: "If it is necessary, this one will die and this one and this one, but the last one, him, will return home".
After the UN’s decision to share Palestine and create a Jewish state, the Arab population reacted violently and unrest erupted in Jerusalem. The population of the Jewish districts began to flee in front of the exactions and the fires.
The exodus of the Palestinians began with the creation of the state of Israel. Started in May 1948 following killings, it was to be provisional. At the time of the Armenian Minister, he had 500,000 Palestinian refugees in neighbouring Arab countries. For UNRWA, the United Nations Office for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, refugee status is granted to one person, or his child, who had his residence in Palestine at least two years before the 1948 conflict and who lost his home and livelihood. There are 1.3 million Palestinian refugees in camps in Gaza, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon waiting to return home. Images of refugees crossing the Jordan River illustrate the journalist’s explanations.