Event
Nakba
The Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, is the Palestinian name for the flight and expulsion of roughly 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's creation in 1948, and for the destruction of hundreds of their villages. It made refugees of more than half the Arab population of former Mandatory Palestine, scattered them across the region, and stands at the centre of Palestinian memory and of the still unresolved refugee question.
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