Two Palestinian brothers met for the first time after a separation that lasted for 62 years since the catastrophe of 1948 (Nakba) last Friday, in the Jordanian capital Amman.

The “Gulf Times” newspaper in its Monday editions reported: "The elder brother, Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiz (82 years), met his younger brother, Mohammed (75 years) at the house of a relative of the family in the area ‘Tabarbour’ east of Amman.

" The brothers said that they were separated as a result of the 1948 catastrophe, the widowed took some of her sons to Iraq, Mahmoud left with his mom and kept on moving till he settled in Sweden where he got married and now has 9 children.

Mohammed stayed in Acre, he got married and had children. The son of Mahmoud started contacting family relatives through internet and connected the brothers together and stayed planning for that reunion for a year and a half until it happened.

They also visited their sister (86 years) who is living with her husband in one of the Palestinian villages. The brothers wept and expressed their happiness, they couldn’t believe they will actually meet after all these years.


Its noteworthy that many families were separated during the catastrophe of 1948, some managed a reunion and some remain separated.

Ammon news/Ab