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Remembering the Nakba: Voices from Palestine (Part 3)
Women and children flee during the catastrophe in Palestine, 1948

LAST Friday, May 15, Palestinians marked the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 people were expelled from their homes and over 500 villages destroyed.

For Palestinians, the Nakba doesn’t represent a singular event but an ongoing process of colonisation and displacement from their lands and people.

Marking this year’s Nakba Day, the Morning Star is publishing a mini series by writers from Gaza, many of whom still live in the refugee camps their grandparents fled to in 1948.

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