The US and UK are expected to stay away from the UN General Assembly’s first-ever commemoration of Nakba Day on May 15.. Israel called on UN member states to shun the event held 75 years after ...

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Nakba Day has often been a flashpoint for violence, and given recent events there is a fear the 2018 commemoration could be bloody. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nakba Day is observed on 15 May every year and commemorates the displacement of Palestinians when the Israeli state was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. “Nakba” is the Arabic ...

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.

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.

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, ...

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.