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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nakba Day Significance Nakba Date 15 May Next time 15 May 2025 (2025-05-15) Frequency Annual Related to Yom Ha'atzmaut Part of a series on the Nakba Background Mandatory Palestine 1947 UN Partition Plan Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine Zionism Zionism as settler colonialism 1948 Nakba 1948 ...
The Al-Qassam Brigades fire rockets towards Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in four months. [77] Four U.S. Army vessels wash up on Israeli beaches, two of them in the Gaza Strip. [78] 28 May – The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognise the State of Palestine, after declaring their intention to do so ...
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
The preservation of place names "with amazing consistency" is noted by Yohanan Aharoni in The Land of the Bible (1979). [19] He attributes this continuity to the common Semitic background of Palestine's local inhabitants throughout the ages, and the fact that place names tended to reflect extant agricultural features at the site in question. [19]
Palestinians consider the Hebraization of place-names in Palestine part of the Palestinian Nakba. [4] Many existing place names in Palestine are based on unknown etymologies. Some are descriptive, some survivals of ancient Nabataean, Hebrew Canaanite or other names, and the occasional name was unaltered from the forms found in the Hebrew Bible ...
A rally in Bangor, Maine organized by members of the Coalition for Palestine and other groups was held outside the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building and Courthouse. [6] Chicago saw demonstrations on I-90 and I-294, with traffic at the entrance to O'Hare International Airport shut down.
12 Palestine Red Crescent workers have now been killed in the line of duty. This includes three Palestine Red Crescent ambulance drivers killed on 10 February 2024. [196] The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 117 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 28,064. [197]
A total of 28 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the worsening crisis between Palestine and Israel. [13] 7 July - Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa was demolished by Israel again for at least the third time. [14] 6 September - Six Palestinian prisoners escape from Gilboa Prison, a maximum security prison in northern Israel. [15]