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Remembering the Nakba: Voices from Palestine

BETWEEN 1947 and 1949, around 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and over 500 villages destroyed.

Today, May 15, marks the Nakba, or “catastrophe” the day after the declaration of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.

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

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