The lives upended by colonial rule in the Middle East
Eid Haddad's parents were teenagers when they witnessed the full force of Britain's presence in Palestine in 1938./ "They saw the troops coming in and attacking people. My father told me that one of the men was hit on his head with a wooden hammer used to mince meat called [in Arabic] a modakah, and he died," says Mr Haddad./ "A man and his son were hanging tobacco leaves to dry them. They were just shot in the back."/ His parents lived in al-Bassa, a Palestinian village subjected to collective punishment by British forces, who called their ...
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