Karim Mukarker from Beit Jala discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Howat-MaxtedFreja SansourLeila BrownBea NorrisJacob 2019 Karim Mukarker (from Beit Jala) interviewed by Hala Amro. <div><br></div><div>He describes the following: great suffering under the Ottomans during World War I; Ottoman army used to follow the horses to collect their dung because of hunger and poverty; by the end of World War I the situation was so bad that local people saw the British as their saviours. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: summary. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 6 of Box 7. </div><div><br></div><div>This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and World War I collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.</div>