“Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to when around 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel's establishment.
“Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to when around 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel's establishment.Israel's recent war on Gaza has forced some 1.7 million Palestinians — around three-quarters of the territory's population — to flee their homes, often multiple times. / Photo: AP Archive
Instead, they became a seemingly permanent refugee community that now numbers some 6 million, with most living in slum-like urban refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Israel's rejection of what Palestinians say is their right to return has been a core grievance in the conflict and was one of the thorniest issues in peace talks that last collapsed 15 years ago.
Al Gazzar, now a great-grandfather, was forced to flee again over the weekend, this time to a tent in Muwasi, a barren coastal area where some 450,000 Palestinians live in a squalid camp. The war has forced some 1.7 million Palestinians — around three-quarters of the territory's population — to flee their homes, often multiple times. That is well over twice the number that fled before and during the 1948 war.
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