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The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing [14] of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. [15]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nakba of 1948 Part of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict Palestinians being displaced after the fall of Haifa, accompanied by armed Haganah personnel. Location Mandatory Palestine Date 31 December 1947 – 20 July 1949 Target Palestinian Arabs Attack type Ethnic ...
Khalidi illustrates the psychological warfare of the Haganah by the use of the Davidka mortar. He writes that it was a "favorite weapon of the Zionists", which they used against civilians: "the Davidka tossed a shell containing 60 lbs. of TNT usually into crowded built-up civilian quarters where the noise and blast maddened women and children into a frenzy of fear and panic."
Palestinians commemorated the 1948 "Nakba" or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle Part of the 1948 Palestine war, the Nakba, and Operation Dani An Israeli soldier with detained Palestinians in Ramle Location The towns of Lydda and Ramle in Palestine Date July 10–14, 1948 Attack type Ethnic cleansing Deaths Unknown. Estimates range ...
With these words, Rashad Mansour rejected President Donald Trump's proposal for the United States to take over Gaza and create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere.
Kassim’s grandfather rented houses to Holocaust survivors and Jewish immigrants, and after what happened to his family, was left penniless with 12 kids. Yousef Kassim’s family lived only six ...
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 is a 1992 reference book edited by the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, with contributions from several other researchers, that describes 418 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depopulated in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the central component of the Nakba.