This is the areas crossing a checkpoint between israel and the gaza strip. Close to 2000000 palestinians live on the other side of this spence. Theyve been largely isolated from the rest of the world for more than a decade. The lives of the people who live here are shaped by the unresolved conflict between israelis and palace. Indians. Mar winterize the helping to preserve gazas history. This box contains photographs from the 1940 s. Through the 1970 s. They passed of a huge collection from the former care home photo studio which was later in the care of tourists he and his family. This is a picture of anwar sadat when he was a young officer in gaza these photos were taken back after. And heres a picture of Mohamed Nasheed the 1st president of the arab republic of egypt. Are there to give this a shake of honor when he came to gaza in 1959 that he was welcomed by the mayor and some other local dignitaries. Here shea meeting some egyptian officers who worked for the military administration. This is the train station not the railroad connecting gaza and egypt station was later toned down. From a once around see these photos are a treasure trove of gazas history the negatives and prints reflect the culture and identity of the local residents. But only a few of the photographs have survived many were not properly stored and suffered significant damage from oyster some of the negatives will never developed. The date and location of the photographs were not always recorded. The 1st graphs were taken by kay hunchy how young he was born in armenia in the 1915 his mother fled the Armenian Genocide and took her infant son with her to syria. Has settled in jerusalem and in the early 1940 s. Moved to gaza where he started working as a photographer. Tell you about castle he started his photography studio of 947. When the war broke on europe in 1900 many palestinians fled to gaza in the west bank. Had experienced his. Similar situation in armenia. Armenia. He considered gaza his 2nd home and started taking pictures of various events including the war. The archive all of his photos so that future generations could see the. More i want to ransey is trying to preserve this material because it provides a detailed account of gazas rich and turbulent history with displacement and loss looming large in peoples collective memory. Can come and others took these dramatic pleasure crafts in 1948. After the founding of the state of israel that same year the arab israeli war that followed almost immediately tens of thousands of palestinian sort refuge and. Many were housed in refugee camps and 949 and United Nations agency was created to provide humanitarian aid and economic support for the refugees. Even today many refugees and their descendants still live in refugee camps like all shanty over the years they build houses and corrugated Metal Structures to replace their tents. Sharifs or han knows this area well. Hes a photographer and artist and spent many years working for the uns Palestinian Refugee relief agency. These children old 5th generation refugees many of the palestinians demand that they be allowed to return to their former homes in what is now israel and the west bank. I dont im photographing you throwing me. So what next was i mean guilty. Like many palestinian photographers who came before him sharifs or han believes that its important to put tre everyday life ahead of the stories that dont make the headlines. These crab fisherman congo far out to sea due to restrictions imposed by the israeli navy. Seal literature through my photographs are trying to portray the rich diversity of life in gaza as well as to the few and not at all that most people know about god there is war destruction the blockade of the occupation of war damon for us all but there are other sides to this story what is life like on the street and at home if people hold very large and go to work. Why try to capture all those aspects of life from our photos of the damage for the last. In ancient times gaza was an important mediterranean port city it was part of the awesome an empire until the end of world war one the british mandate of a palestine including gaza last it until 948 gaza was then administered by egypt until 967 and subsequently occupied by israel following the 6 day war. A form of palestinian selfgovernment was created in 1904 with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 2007 the radical Islamic Group hamas took over the gaza strip israel then stepped up its control of the gaza sea coast space and land rates citing security concerns that. There have been 3 wars and several smaller conflicts in gaza over the last decade Palestinian Militants sometimes fire rockets at nearby israeli towns and cities israel responds with strikes. Palestinians continue to hope for the creation of their own independent state but those hopes are fading. The middle east Peace Process is currently store. The new generation of palestinian photographers document the ongoing conflict as part of they were. But sharif sohan also believes that he and his colleagues have an obligation to record the history of his homeland through visual representation. Through the lens of his camera he presents his own perspective on the daily lives of gaza residents and how they see themselves. As frickin rest of us on an island. I dream a lot of people enjoy looking around for old photographs that they go through family photo albums to find out how their parents or grandparents are. Are trying to squeeze both important and difficult and its not limited to photographers i feel thats it and thats a task is to document the lives of palestinians today and for the next 100 years. Probably a lot easier today than it was 30 years or 7 years ago so you know series that i have to. Give how we need to put together an archive for documents the daily lives of palestinians from the beginning of the 20th century a little bit of color but how should we do that. How do we develop this conscious looking more commercials archive 3 stories that i was with the goal is to help people learn about their history through photographs and not just by hearing stories about what i said as i look back at what can i. Call of sheriffs or hahn is a cofounder of the artists collective called shabab baek which means windows in arabic. It goes up. Because gaza is essentially cut off communication with the outside world is always an issue. Few people visit the strip and only a small number of gazans are able to travel by israel to the west bank or further afield. I am sure the link of in the name where are the gloves. But we cant leave gaza to visit museums in london or paris or rome or anywhere else for the photo to be able to watch and we can even go to the west bank to see the works of other artists. What delora National Beacon how will it all work at the shop would be collector the same good bringing the world to us should be every month or whenever we can we host events were probably more foreign artists talk to us on skype. We want to promote the exchange of cultures idea use and expertise. Brought bring all their problems to near artists in custody though clearly for those under the influence the leaders of. Today my one to rozzi is visiting the Traditional Market district. Look tar is one of the oldest commercial streets in gaza city. This is where can jail yon opened his photo studio in the 1940 s. Model one turn as hes older brother maurice began working for him and learning the art of photography in the 1960 s. You know. For. Sure water is going to give a server me i mean. This is the im still submerged. In the me just going to show the most i would learn. From a lot of mom so lets move on got the ball down in the middle of a shelf show us the one thing the hole in the family for. Thousands of kilometers under will the way from gaza. Photographic legacy is also being preserved in southwestern france. And he put time is the oldest daughter of the armenian photographer. On the heat was born and raised in costa. What memories i have of its happiness he was very and my mother was very welcomed in gaza she did not know how to speak arabic but she spoke french and a little bit of english than many of the families that is a twit of what age she was 20 only they became very good fence together we were very beautiful i accepted him as mean yes. And he would tell grew up in gaza in the 1950 s. And sixtys when the area was under egypt in military Administration Later she studied in egypt she now lives in france with her husband. When she moved to france she brought along 1st graphs of her family she left her other possessions behind in. These pictures of anna he taken by her father. I did go up stairs several times in fact to the dark and i would stand there with him. Now that we are talking there is the order of these chemicals that are there you know all this. Packet of chemicals its coming to me that i smell a field or that i remember the. And i would sit there with him and i was always amazed seeing the pictures appearing slowly slowly when after he had been printed and then put in the chemicals and the picture that starts to appear. They thought this studio was a busy place. Only a few people owned their own cameras. Many portraits from those days have been preserved for posterity. Everybody went to have their portraits especially. The middle class and upper class and lower middle class they all went to her portrait everybody was photographed by my father that i think. Is that my father or my uncle or at least. The un relief and works agency for palestine refugees has its own Photo Archive in gaza. Where he photographs document the lives of refugees and their descendants over the last 70 years. Theres often a lot of detective work involved in archiving these photos he says thats particularly true of old if i says where theres little or no information on where they were taken all the people who put trade in them. The monkey. In the old days they used a different system for archiving it than we do today so families came to the studio the photographer took the pictures made a final for each family so he marked the negatives with everyones names and stuart and. I look at a lot of ordinary negatives were filed without a date or any other information. So well as us today photographers keep track of everything. Including the date and the place where the photo was taken. Thats not how they used to once. When i 1st found the archives everything was just tossed it together. In this manner actually for years the same system for black and white and colorful ascent we write down all the details on the name of the photographer of the year it was printed the copyright date and the credits. Copyright it just. To look at. You know. Together they look for clues as to that it has provenance or. Was this for talkers or documentary and preserving promised union history. Photographers around the world yes they archive their workers are they documented history at the same time i was on duty. Recently much of this archive was digitized since the early 1950 s. Un photog. If is have been documenting the lives of Palestinian Refugees and their descendants in lebanon syria jordan the west bank and gaza. Time and time again the nights of gaza residents have been impacted by International Events like the suez canal crisis in the 1956 which led to war between egypt and israel. In 56 it was the war that israel stayed about 5 months until march from. November to march but i remember details of that period as well in fact. As we live on the main street we were sent by that and the children all that i mean is of that web that mostly all that into the back of the house. They had houses near the Christian Church that. We were sent to because that was why the large wards. Gaza has lots of. Houses but my father did not come because he wanted to stay a tom and he kept picturing there. Pictures of that i remember i dont have them. Picture a lot. Of the occupation of israel. Found these photographs of dead civilians in one of his boxes. Its not known when where the photos were taken by whom. Even before the 956. 00 war they were frequent clashes between israeli troops and palestinian militias along the border there were casualties on all sides including civilians. The war ended in november 1956. Shortly afterwards the un sent peacekeeping troops to patrol both sides of the border between egypt and israel. They stayed until the 6 day war broke out in june 19th 67. 57 when the United Nations came in for the protection of gaza thats was. A few neath. Became almost the fleas zone. For. Egypt egyptians came to buy from gaza what they did not have. So guys a florist enormously enormously in that period that you could feel you could see. And my father work became even more fraud because he was the agent for. Companies. For everything that graph in the paper of the of the films or and he was the distribute for all the other photographers and by then many other young palestinians that were working with or that would lead with coke or order with my father that they started their businesses as well and all over the best. During this time a number of high Profile International visitors travel to girls including shaikh of into 959 local newspapers reported that the communist revolution revisited the shotty refugee camp. Hollywood actor you also visited gaza on behalf of the United Nations to call attention to the plight of refugees in the region. And in 1960 indian Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru arrived in gaza to visit indian troops who were part of the Un Peacekeeping force. Dancers landscape has changed considerably over the years. More winterize hes trying to document this transformation. This is the grace of mari mosque the oldest and largest structure of its kind in the gaza strip. The centuries old building was severely damaged in world war one and rebuilt in the 1920 s. But some buildings have fallen into disrepair. Like the former al nasr cinema. Most of gazas movie theaters were shut down in the late 1980 s. Often due to Political Considerations they were seen as having a liberal influence. A number of Historic Buildings that were no longer used have been torn down like the former train station. Here marwan is visiting the site of the railroad that once operated between gaza and egypt. For them was also a little more. Comfortable. Good job on the. Top of the. Other the other. One is among the largest. In the last. Year we are going to look at the money. And some fact that the days of train travel in gaza and long gone over the years restrictions on the movements of local residents have increased only specific groups of people such as those who are ill or are on business can apply for a permit to travel by israel but the application process as long and complicated. The rougher Border Crossing between gaza and egypt has been frequently shot down in recent he is usually due to political tensions. Those who want to travel to egypt have to get permits from the how muscle thora and the egyptians. The 1st was a witness. To blow him of the playfield 10 years. To live on. To the muslim player coming to bomb a limited thing in the season and. Im in there how nice is a rapper and music producer who collects old treasure graphs of dos a. Few used some of these pics his in a music video he made 0. 03 here. And most of people want to leave gaza says im on but hes decided to stay. Though i wouldnt let my friend some great photos of gaza on the internet as well. They show that people in the gaza strip and elsewhere in palestine used to have freedom while the nation will connect including this makes me want to write songs about the miserable conditions that we live in today and how people here used to live a 5th. Of. The economy in gaza and palestine was growing critical of us who feel they had trains and an airport but theres no airport in gaza today the solution the above is just ridiculous that back in the sixtys we had an airport in the gaza strip invasion. But now in 2020 we dont. Know why senior officials. Over half of gazas residents under the age of 30 most of them have never been outside the temperature. Im a mere ham he says come to see a friend hes also a musician theyre going to try out a new song. Were still on. The lookout for musicians in gaza and a lot of money youth unemployment is at 60 percent full time jobs are rare and young people do odd jobs just to get by sometimes their families help out with money. And. Hope over the course says get me out of this cough and its not you who decides when i die i want to breathe at the right now i feel like im buried its my right to experience life travel to laugh and to plan for the future and for high atrophy but here in gaza i cant plan anything i dont know whats going to happen tomorrow well ill still be alive how will there be a war i cant plan and i cant see the horizon shaved. Well. Some of those who were at the would. Do what they would hope her luck was sick or less it wasnt going to console i think both has a new 1000000 innovation for good measure. And 2nd that it was good to know what was going to. Fall. To the to visit cuba as head of the world is that even with the. Record and resettlement some other folks have told us that they were happy back then most they say they used to travel from gaza to nazareth and other places and there were no restrictions it was a lovely and dick friend but now there are border post sensory problems based on religion and politics. The whole situation has changed this year the kind of life that these older people enjoyed it just doesnt exist anymore. The cliff the moment out of hell emotionally and now i havent gone to the Border Crossing in a long time about 15 years sauce and im 26 years old so i should have done some traveling by now to experience other people im conscious of asking but i havent. Slept. Well. Im a mere ham is teaches a rap music oath at a local Breakdown School the project is called does the lives. Rap is not considered part of traditional arab music culture the artists distribute their music by the internet but have to get official permission to perform in public and the authorities usually dont grant says. Sarah has written a text about life in gaza. Is a muslim message. Saying others say. She saw the last she said it was just that she would soon learn to d love to see one of the so the movie of which the writer. And i was they miss us have secular ideas are only for the sincerest etans the a. F. L. Is for them a clear message to fit what i say celebrity of the consumer and the quote of the man who says. The motion is a mystery a salute you for the truth whether we. Wish you the world war 2. Letters if you would. Not only is that a way has a high i had 2nd thought only look at us is that a list that is the f. A. A. Of the 5th message has if it was a 70 high after the 1st see them fundamentally. The inside of you look at the. Birth of. The 3rd who was a nice city but life here is hard and all the conflicts and so forth. And theres no future for me here spelling and. Mark once rosie is on his way to the church of st paul fieri is in the house of gaza city. Christians have played an Important Role in the life of gaza for centuries st push farias is one of the oldest active churches in gaza city and belongs to the Greek Orthodox community of which marwan is a member. Of an estimated 1000 christians live in gaza but that number is falling much like other youths in gaza many Young Christians are eager to leave the territory the. One has now stopped by his sisters home for a visit. After. Their brother will race took over the photo business in the 1986 his studio became just as well known as its predecessor from council. The whole family love to work in photography we all learned from maurice scanned my sister really enjoyed photography should work in the darkroom all day long that was her hobby she developed photos that were taken all over gaza. For only when i worked in the dark tunnel of young men werent allowed to guarantee the privacy of the people in the photographs to shoot for so what i yes on bennett. Business at many traditional studios has fallen off in recent years these days more and more people are taking pictures with digital cameras. The clothes they studio over a decade ago. A lot has changed since then. Almost part of some i put a few small children. In the circle and a few this one. Is the. British one. Gazas population is growing rapidly about 1800000 people live in the small territory which between egypt israel and the mediterranean overcrowding has become a serious problem. Deceit and sure plus of gaza so. Local people love to come here and take a break its the only place they say where they can get away from the stress and problems of daily life. However with the how to research and tries to capture the mood of the seashore in his photographs the people here seem to be enjoying themselves as they would on any beach anywhere in the world. So how does Jack Wilshere see waves everything. It provides the air we breathe and freedom and security its our future which is our blue horizon. And he still has strong ties to gaza through her fond memories of the past and images of her father she also remembers the friends she made when she lived there she still stays in touch with one of those friends. But i mean he could turn has not been to gaza for more than a decade because of the travel restrictions so the 2 friends talked by phone. This summer and then look at but by then. And. Then this senior let go of the white house and. With the bed when. You me with the bit when close to him sitting next to live as. We speak like we did now just anything shes telling me that this scene in canada has made their wonderful luba ok we try to live as if life is not my. She lives as if life is not mine and i encourage. How ask and you live it can we keep trying all the time. And we do that. In spite of all the beautiful things i said about because old my. My joy. And my happiness and its true that it was a region that was constantly in order constantly in changing changing city station situations and all. Yes it it it would be very good that somebody or something we put things together to keep the history at least the history that we know of. And the documents are there i mean the prints are there somewhere that would represent a part of history of. And to take a history and a movie history. The photos from gaza connect to people from different places and from different generations. Like my one to rajiv with his treasure trove of facial graphs they all want to preserve this material for future generations. Their common goal is to keep alive the history of gaza and the cultural identity of its inhabitants. How the hero restored the town in the bath as these negatives and prints are so important to me because this is our heritage and our civilization and how them all over we have left our values photographs of the Everything Else was destroyed in the wars and conflicts in this where the end of these negatives and prince mean everything to me about clearly on. Entered the conflict zone. After the murder of a journalist stuffed me carol on a good beat see a bulls eye itself has become a firewood from violence and corruption my guest this week is the countrys foreign minister Everest Fausto love he says he wants to improve motors tanishq image funny how many more secrets have to come out before that will be possible. Conflicts of. 30 minutes d. W. What secrets lie behind. Discover new adventures in 360 degree. And explore fascinating World Heritage sites. P. W. World heritage 316 get the map now. I was fishing when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room and very similar it was hard i was fair. I even got white hairs that. Benjamin language head nodding off this keeps me and could help us maybe to entrust the fight you want to know their story in the muslims are fighting and reliable information for margaret. Bases d. W. News live from the belarusians have back on the streets today huge crowds are gathering in minsk honoring the victims of the brutal crackdown on protests demanding new elections they have europes support but embattled president Alexander Lukashenko polls on russia to back him out also on the program japans emperor expresses think remorse for his countrys aggression 75 years after its surrender at the end of world war 2 for japan