Abstract
The AFSC deployed to Gaza quickly. Working in a region without any government, only a military occupation, created legal, conceptual, and moral problems for the organization. Egyptian authorities exercised partial sovereignty over Gaza, including military operations, border control, and provided limited relief for refugees, and attempted to control aspects ofAFSC communications and transport. At the same time, the region was effectively stateless and Palestine Arab refugees, local Gaza residents, and Bedouin, were rapidly thrust into an increasingly complex social and legal setting.1
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Ilana Feldman, “Mercy Trains and Ration Rolls Between Government and Humanitarianism in Gaza (1948–67),” in Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East, eds. N. Naguib and I. M. Okkenhaug (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 175–194.
Emmet W. Gulley, Tall Tales by a Tall Quaker (privately published, 1973), 6.
See generally Martin Kolinsky, “The Efforts of the Truman Administration to Resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Middle Eastern Studies 20 (1984): 81–94.
See generally Zvi Elpeleg, The Grand Mufti, Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement (London: Frank Cass, 1993); Philip Mattar, “The Mufti of Jerusalem: Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, a Founder of Palestinian Nationalism” (doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1981);
Joseph B. Schechtman, The Mufti and the Fuehrer; the Rise and Fall of Haj Amin el-Husseini (New York: T. Yoseloff, 1965). The Mufti’s meeting with Pickett and Replogle is not mentioned in any of these biographies.
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Romirowsky, A., Joffe, A.H. (2013). AFSC in the Field: December 1948–December 1949. In: Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378170_5
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