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Evicted: about 750,000 Palestinians were killed or expelled from their land during the Nakba which began on May 15 1948. Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock

The Nakba: how the Palestinians were expelled from Israel

Marwan Darweish, Coventry University

The village of Lajjun, near Nazareth, which was destroyed in 1948 to make room for a kibbutz is a microcosm of the catastrophe that still affects Palestinians 75 years later.
It’s been 75 years since Palestinians were first expelled from their homeland. Here, people from Tantura as they were relocated to Jordan, June 1948. (Benno Rothenberg/Meitar Collection/National Library of Israel/The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)

Will a UN resolution to commemorate the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands change the narrative? — Listen

Boké Saisi, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

The UN’s resolution to recognize Nakba Day on May 15, to mark the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, helps to acknowledge past traumas but does the resolution have other implications?

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  1. DCMR
  2. Israel
  3. Palestine
  4. Palestinians
  5. settler
  6. The Nakba
  7. United Nations (UN)
  8. Yasser Arafat
  9. Zionism

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