The School Bag of Shaheed Alaa Mahfouz, Displaced at the "100 Shaheeds, 100 Lives", Exhibition, Feb 2001

This photograph shows the school bag that belonging to Shaheed Alaa Mahfouz Dahlan who lived in the Aroub Refugee Camp to a forcibly displaced family from Araq' Almanshieh village. Mahfouz was injured when Israeli occupation army forces shelled the residential areas in the camp, and he remained in hospitalization for six days until he murdered On October 25, 2000. This item was displayed at the "100 Shaheeds - 100 Lives" exhibition held at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah on February 20, 2001.which is taken by photographer Isabel de la Cruz, the idea of the exhibition emerged weeks after the eruption of the Second Intifada (Al-Aqsa Intifada) as a tribute to all those murdered in the struggle. However, as the number of Shaheeds was exponentially increasing, the exhibition was limited to honoring the first 100 Shaheeds representing all areas of Historic Palestine.