Today, we remember the Nakba — the catastrophe
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Today, we remember the Nakba — the catastrophe
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Today is the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, the catastrophe. over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes. Hundreds of villages were depopulated or destroyed. Generations have since grown up in refugee camps, diaspora, and under military occupation — denied the right to return to their ancestral lands.
For 77 years the Palestinians have endured displacement, occupation and oppression. The Nakba is not a chapter closed in history books — it is an ongoing reality. Starvation is weaponized, Displacement continues. Families are evicted, lands are confiscated, lives are lost. And yet, the resilience of the Palestinian people endures.
To remember the Nakba is to honor truth over erasure. It is to stand with justice over oppression. It is to uphold the basic human right of a people to live freely, with dignity, on their own land, Palestine.
May we never forget.
May we raise our voices for those silenced.
May we see a day where justice and peace prevail
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