Mohammed Salim, who estimates he is approaching 80 as he was born “sometime in the 40s”, remembers vast fields owned by Al Walaja families. In 2018, Al Walaja sits on a tiny cusp of the land it commanded when he was a child. For the residents of Al Walaja, the Nakba was the beginning of a seven-decade struggle to survive. Yet Al Walaja looks like one of the Holy Land’s most charming villages. A symbol of the destruction of Palestinian life, Al Walaja has attracted funding from foreign states sympathetic to what it represents.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2018 05:03 UTC