Palestinians do not view the Nakba as a one-time event 76 years ago, she stressed. “The Nakba has happened every day since 1948,” she said. “We have been living it over and over again.

Gaza—Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world observe Nakba Day—the “Day of Catastrophe,” which marks the mass displacement and dispossession that followed the creation of the ...

Palestinians do not view the Nakba as one-time event 76 years ago, she stressed. “The Nakba has happened every day since 1948,” she said. “We have been living it over and over again.

On the anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinians remember the profound loss and ongoing struggle for justice. The Solemn History Behind Nakba Day Skip to main content ...

More than 15,000 Palestinians were killed and 531 towns and villages destroyed during al-Nakba, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, an institute of the Palestinian Authority ...

The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a ...

The ceremony she attended on Thursday, Nakba Day, brought together about 100 Israelis and 100 Palestinians south of Jerusalem to hear stories of those displaced in 1948 and listen to mournful music.

That same day, Palestinian Arabs commemorated what they term the Nakba (catastrophe) during which up to 539,000 Palestinians left their homes during the events that accompanied Israel’s birth.

Nakba Day – which is May 15, the day after the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence – recognizes the forcible displacement of around 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, ...

Nakba translates to “Memory of the Catastrophe” and is commemorated every May 15 as a day of mourning by Palestinians displaced from their land in 1948 during the formation of the State of Israel.

The description for Nakba Day read: “This observance marks the Nakba, or Catastrophe, during which Zionist forces in 1948 expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from their homelands.