Ahmed Abu Watfa, 52, speaks on the 76th anniversary of Nakba, or 'catastrophe' in Khan Younis, Gaza on May 15, 2024.
Palestinians on Wednesday commemorated the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe," drawing similarities between the mass wartime displacement of 1948 with the "misery" hundreds of thousands of families in Gaza have experienced during latest conflict with Israel.Ahmed Abu Watfa, 52, speaks on the 76th anniversary of Nakba, or "catastrophe" in Khan Younis, Gaza on Wednesday.
Some in Gaza lamented that the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has been history repeating itself. A group of Arab refugees walks along a road from Jerusalem to Lebanon, carrying their belongings with them on Nov. 9, 1948. In 2023, for the first time, the United Nations commemorated the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary of their exodus, an action stemming from the U.N.’s partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.
Keeping the memory of the Nakba alive has been tantamount to the Palestinian identity. For some, the experience they've lived through in the last months have gone beyond what the stories they heard from their ancestors. Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday.
Over the last decades, dozens of refugee camps have grown into densely built up urban townships spread throughout the Middle East, where the 1948 refugees and their descendants make up almost half the total Palestinian population.
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