The creativity and giving of the people of Jerusalem does not stop at the borders of their homeland. Throughout the history of the Palestinian cause, there are many models that have written honorable pages in the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle.

One such example is the Jerusalemite photographer Hani Jawhariya, who was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He completed his schooling in the city’s schools, then went to Egypt to study at university, and then to Britain, where he obtained several certificates in the fields of cinema and cinematography.

Jawhariyeh left the city of Jerusalem in 1966, and during 1967 he moved to the Jordanian capital, Amman, and worked in the Jordanian Ministry of Information, and worked in producing the Cinema Newspaper program on Jordanian television, and produced the films: The Exodus in 1967, The Scorched Earth in 1968, The Flower of Cities in 1969, and The Bridge of Return in 1969.

Jawhariyeh joined the ranks of the Palestinian revolution in 1967, and documented with his camera the crossing of the fedayeen through the Jordan Valley and the suffering of the refugees in the camps. He founded the cinema and photography unit within the Fatah movement, which was called “Palestine Films”, and with it he produced the documentary film “No to a Peaceful Solution” in 1969. In 1970, he produced the film “With Soul and Blood”. He also produced a film documenting the establishment of the educational city for the children of the martyrs of Palestine in Syria in 1974, under the title “On the Road to Victory”.

Jawharieh was martyred during an air raid by the Zionist occupation forces on a site where he was filming one of his documentary films, in Mount Lebanon, in the year 1976.