When he tried to reassure her that they would find a place to start anew, she protested: “No, no, I’m worried, because when my grandkids grow [up] and they ask themselves, ‘Where do I come from?’ they won’t be able to answer that question.”
Long before lines were drawn on a map and city names were changed, there existed a land full of people who lived in bustling cities and remote villages, where markets overflowed with diverse voices, and farmers tended olive trees rooted deep in the hills.This story is told not through treaties or timelines, but through photographs: small, powerful fragments that capture the texture of daily life and those who lived it.
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Browse through Palestine as it was: people, places, and life and culture.The children, elders, farmers and merchants
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Traditional dress, expressions and gestures reflect a culture rich in diversity. Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Bedouins appear side by side, revealing a land defined not by division, but by coexistence."It is our goal to prevent Bosch products from being used in a way that violates sanctions at the end of the direct or indirect supply chain within our sphere of influence,” a spokesperson said.
Other companies named in the database did not reply to Al Jazeera.While the sale of goods with military applications can breach clear ethical and legal lines, ordinary consumer products occupy a more ambiguous space.
The aim of corporate exodus should not be “to punish the population for what their government is doing”, Skybenko said.“But by staying, [companies] will inevitably contribute to the war economy. Either indirectly by paying taxes that go to the war budget or directly because of the mobilisation law, they [are] obliged to help the Russian government with [the] mobilisation effort”.