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Person · Painter; secretary-general of the General Union of Palestinian Artists
1930–2006
Born in Lydda on 2 March 1930, he was eighteen when, on 13 July 1948, after the fall of Lydda and Ramla, he and his family were forced with the towns’ inhabitants to walk to Ramallah, forbidden to carry water. He studied at the Fine Art Academy in Cairo and in Rome, held his first exhibition in Gaza in 1953 with his brother Jamil, married the artist Tamam al-Akhal, and was secretary-general of the General Union of Palestinian Artists from 1969 to 1984. He died on 3 July 2006.
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Ismail Shammut
مجزرة اللد ومسيرة الموت
Ongoing activity · not a separate dated incident
Between 9 and 13 July 1948 Israeli forces took Lydda in Operation Dani. More than four hundred people were killed in the city, among them those sheltering in the Dahmash mosque, and some 70,000 people of Lydda and the surrounding towns were driven out on foot toward Ramallah.
Forced out of Lydda with his family on 13 July 1948, on foot to Ramallah
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonIsmail Shammout was born in PlaceLydda
Role: Born here: 2 March 1930, Lydda
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 2 March 1930, Lydda
Evidence version:palquest-ismail-shammout-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonIsmail Shammout participated in EventThe Lydda massacre and death march
Role: Forced out of Lydda with his family on 13 July 1948, on foot to Ramallah
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Three days after the fall of Lydda and Ramla to the Zionist forces, on 13 July 1948, Shammout and his family (along with the inhabitants of the two towns) were forced to leave and go on foot to Ramallah and were not allowed to carry water.”
Evidence version:palquest-ismail-shammout-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.