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Hassan Mohammed (72) is from Ramallah, Palestine..'I am one of the very few muslim Palestinians in Honduras. I came in 1975 to San Pedro Sula after my divorce. I re-married to a Honduran woman. I have two daughters in Palestine, they studied at the Bir Zeit university and work now for the Palestinian authority. Here I have two children as well. Twenty years ago everything was better in Honduras, now things are really bad. I want to go back to Palestine, its so violent here and the business goes bad. My wife was recently robbed and they shot her.'..It was as early as the late 1800's that the first Palestinians arrived in Honduras. It was the time of the Ottoman empire and many Christian Palestinians felt the pressure that they had to convert to Islam and enlist in the Turkish army. Many took the boat with destination ‘the Americas' and honduras turned out to be the final destination. When the state of Israel was created in 1948 many followed. With many more in 1967 (six day war, occupation of Gaza, Westbank and the Golan heights) and during and after the two Intifadah's..Nowadays its estimated that there are around 200,000 people of Palestinian decent in Honduras, making it probably the biggest Palestinian community in the Western hemisphere. They have been very succesful on both an economic and a political level. Almost all are Christians and from the Bethlehem area. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen)