Cape Town opposition parties back call to light up City Hall for Palestine on Nakba Day

Cape Town opposition parties back call to light up City Hall for Palestine on Nakba Day

This 15th of May marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba (Arab word meaning “catastrophe”), as the forced expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 is known. But what began as a crime of ethnic cleansing lasted for decades in the form of colonial occupation, with blockades, walls, illegal settlements, persecution and repression. Today, this process leads to a new Nakba: an ope…