Open Eye, The Missing – Imm Aziz
Written by duckrabbit“If I had only known that my sons were going and that I would not see them again I would have thrown myself under the wheels of the truck that took them.” Imm Aziz
Palestinian Amina Hassan Banat, 78, better known for Imm Aziz, sits on a sofa placed under the framed portraits of her 4 sons at the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj el Barajneh on the southern suburbs of Beirut. Aziz (31), Ibrahim (25), Mansour (22) and Ahmed (13) were taken away by force in 1982 when militants stormed the house where they were having breakfast. Since then she has never seen them. Imm Aziz still hopes for their return. (C) Dalia Khamissy
The school bag of Ahmed, the youngest of Imm Aziz' sons, who was 13 years old when he was taken away by force in 1982, along with his 3 brothers. Imm Aziz kept all the belongings of her sons, at least those she could recover, in the hope that they will come back home one day. (C) Dalia Khamissy
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