A French nurse and an Italian photographer devote their lives to the Palestinian cause but make the ultimate sacrifice.
This is one in two Europeans who have devoted their lives to the Palestinian cause and paid the ultimate price.
Françoise Kesteman was a French nurse who worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. She was a communist and considered the displacement of millions of Palestinians as a fundamental injustice which was to be approached. She has joined armed groups resistant to Israeli occupation.
Franco Fontana was an Italian photographer who co-founded a Marxist-Leninist political group in the 1970s and organized exhibitions to raise awareness of the Palestinian cause. As a photojournalist, he visited Palestine and Lebanon, where he also joined groups fighting to release Palestine.
Kesteman was killed in 1984 in a paramilitary operation in Lebanon. Fontana fell ill in 2015 and chose to return to a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where he died and was buried, just like his dying wish.
