Locked out: Palestinians in Jordan still waiting to return to stolen homes | Israel-Palestine conflict

Locked out: Palestinians in Jordan still waiting to return to stolen homes | Israel-Palestine conflict

Amman, Jordan – David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, would eventually fade for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians violently expelled from their homeland by Zionist militias in 1948. In 1949, a year after the State of Israel was created, he…

Palestinians mark 76 years of Nakba as new tragedy unfolds in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

Palestinians mark 76 years of Nakba as new tragedy unfolds in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

Palestinians will mark the 76th anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel, an event that is at the core of their national struggle. But in many ways, that experience pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. Palestinians refer to the anniversary, which they will…