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Entsar Abu Jahal

Dec 29, 2020

A Palestinian woman wearing a face mask amid the Covid-19 pandemic cleans artifacts at her family-run al-Qarara Cultural Museum, as visitors stopped coming following Gaza authoritiess decision to close tourist places to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19, 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images) — A Palestinian woman wearing a face mask against COVID-19 cleans artifacts at her family-run al-Qarara Cultural Museum in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 19, 2020. — SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images

Palestinian amateur archaeologist Waleed Al-Aqqad touches a clay jar from his collection of ancient artefacts at his house, which he was turned into a museum, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip April 3, 2011. Five thousand years of fascinating history lie beneath the sands of the Gaza Strip, from blinded biblical hero Samson to British general Allenby. Picture taken April 3, 2011. To match Feature PALESTINIANS-ARCHAEOLOGY REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) - RTR2LFVK

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