The Battle for Jerusalem in May 1948

One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of 30 years Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe. Only now, 60 years later, images can be shown from three opposing points of view, telling a whole new story. Subscribe to wocomoHISTORY: Follow us on Facebook: The events of the 1948 war of Jerusalem, which would lead to the founding of Israel, had been immortalized through the photographies of two war phtographers, British and Palestinian. John Philip, the british photographer, was one of the first photo journalist in the world on the war in Jerusalem. His camera documents the jews perpective, the evacution of thousand of jews from the Old City of Jerusalem. Philip captures, for Life Magazine, the destruction of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Meanwhile Ali Zaarour was one