Middle East: Palestinians mark Nakba anniversary
Activists and survivors say the commemoration renews demands for justice and the right of return as more than 2 million people remain displaced.
- On Friday, millions of Palestinians marked the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe," commemorating the displacement of 750,000 people during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation.
- Historically, 80% of Palestinians living in what became Israel were displaced during the 1948 war, and around 530 villages were destroyed, fueling demands for the 'right of return' enshrined in UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
- This year's commemoration comes as more than 2 million people in Gaza remain displaced and confined to a fraction of their territory, with the current ceasefire doing little to ease humanitarian strain.
- Separately, the Defense Army ordered residents of five villages near Tyre, Lebanon, to evacuate on Friday, warning civilians to move at least 1,000 meters away from targeted areas.
- Many refugees and their descendants, now numbering around 6 million, remain scattered across the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Gaza, continuing to demand their right of return.
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Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Democracy Now Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project. “Israel tried, since 1948 until today, to destroy us…
On today's Nakba, or Catastrophe, Palestinians remember their ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Israel still does not allow the refugees to return.
More than six months after the ceasefire in October, the Gazan population is overcrowded in less than half of the 40 km length of the coastal strip, while the rest of the territory is under Israeli military control.
How Israel's genocide in Gaza brought the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba, into global focus
On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, a generation raised on its memory watches history repeat itself, this time, before the eyes of a world that can no longer look away.
Gaza elders who survived the Nakba reflect on being displaced by Israel again, 78 years later
“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba," says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. "This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.”
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