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Ismail & Tamam Shammout

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Since mid 1997, Ismail & Tamam started collection of big size oil paintings, each of which portrays personal memories and pictures of Palestinian events witnessed during their lives. This project is sought to summarize their artistic and life experience.

This is the second one of Ismail’s:

Title:

MASS EXILE OF LYDDA Matterial: Oil on Canvas. 200x160 cm.
Year: 1997-1998

THE FORCED MASS EXILE OF ”LYDDA & RAMLEH” PALESTINIANS

On July 9^th, 1948, the Israeli army entered the cities of Lydda and Ramleh by force. Despite the fact that both cities had no Arab army forces, nor did their people possess arms or weapons, and therefore, there was practically no resistance, the Israeli army acted deliberately with ruthless brutality on its people. Males were kept in a closed compound. A strict curfew was imposed on both cities over a period of three days.

On the morning of that day of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for the Muslims, the July sun beat down relentlessly as the townspeople were herded into compounds. “There were tens of thousands of us”, Ismail recalls. Actually there were approximately 100,000 people forcibly evacuated from Lydda and Ramleh on that day. Among these were elderly men, ill people, women, pregnant women, children, and even newborns.

At noon, the terrorizing Israeli soldiers drove the people out of the compounds and forced them towards the East.