Palestinians commemorated the 1948 'Nakba' or catastrophe, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel.
GAZA /JERUSALEM — 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 , as fighting raged amid the rubble in Gaza .The Nakba has been one of the defining experiences for Palestinians for more than 75 years, helping to shape their national identity and casting its shadow on their conflicted relationship with Israel in the decades since.
But for some, the experience of the past months has superseded the old stories of families being driven from their villages."My mother and father told me about the Nakba, the first one, but this Nakba here is worse," said 58-year-old Faridah Abu Artema, sitting in a tent encampment near Rafah. "This is destruction. They've destroyed us—what we have seen, no one else has seen. This is a tragedy.
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