Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession on Wednesday, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel.
Palestinians across the Middle East on Wednesday are marking the anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel with protests and other events at a time of mounting concern over the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza .The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what today is Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948.
His father tried to return to their village in the early years after 1948, when the border was relatively porous, but found a Jewish family living in their house, he said.Nasser said he would attempt the same journey if the border were not so heavily guarded. “I would run. I’m ready to walk from here to there and sleep under the olive trees on my own land,' he said.
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