Every year on May 15, the Palestinian people commemorate the Nakba that befell them in 1948, when Zionist militias and gangs forcibly displaced over 900,000 Palestinians from their cities and villages, completely destroyed approximately 531 villages, and committed more than 70 massacres in which over 15,000 people were killed. Seventy eight years later, the Israeli war machine is reproducing the same scene—but with far deadlier tools, and amidst a shameful international silence and unjustifiable inaction.

The 1948 Nakba – Founding Through Genocide and Displacement

The 1948 Nakba was not a passing war. It was the culmination of a colonial settler project that began taking shape in the late nineteenth century. Backed by colonial powers, Zionist gangs expelled between 780,000 and 957,000 Palestinians. Their society was destroyed, and they were displaced to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and neighboring Arab countries. The Arab identity of the land was erased: Palestinian villages and towns were wiped off the map and renamed with Hebrew names.

The land was lost, the people scattered, and “Israel” was born on the ruins of a nation and a people who continue to live the Nakba and its horrors. The settler colonial project did not stop there, as it continued through decades of occupation and settlement expansion in the West Bank and Gaza, steadily creating colonial facts on the ground and obliterating the Arab and Islamic identity of Palestine.

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