Palestinians across the Middle East are marking the anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. Protests and other events will be held across the region on Wednesday at a time of mounting concern over the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel , an event that is at the core of their national struggle but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel , an event that is at the core of their national struggle but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza.
At a center for elderly residents of the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Amina Taher recalled the day her family’s house in the village of Deir al-Qassi, in what is now northern Israel, collapsed over their heads after being shelled by Israeli forces in 1948. The house was next to a school that was being used as a base by Palestinian fighters, she said.
Daoud Nasser, also now living in Shatila, was 6 years old when his family fled from the village of Balad al-Sheikh, near Haifa. 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. Gaza’s Health Ministry says over 35,000 Palestinians have been killed, without distinguishing between civilians and combatants in its count. The U.N. says there is widespread hunger and that northern Gaza is in aIsrael says its goal is to dismantle Hamas and return the estimated 100 hostages, and the remains of more than 30 others, still held by the group after it released most of the rest during a cease-fire last year.
The fighting in Rafah has made the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing — Gaza’s main cargo terminal — mostly inaccessible from the Palestinian side. Israel’s capture of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt has forced it to shut down and sparked a crisis of relations with the Arab country. Aid groups says the loss of the two crossings has crippled efforts to provide humanitarian aid as needs mount.
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