Pakistan, July 12 -- "Six years after the writing of this book, my mother died. Her hope - as I mentioned at the end of the book - 'to live to see the end of this tragic story' was not fulfilled. The ...

UNRWA has condemned Israel’s plan to force Gaza’s population into a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah as inhumane.

The Nakba of 1948 resulted in the systematic removal of more than 750,000 Palestinians and their homes during the Arab-Israeli War that followed the United Nations’ partition of Palestine and ...

For the first time in history, the United Nations is officially commemorating the Nakba, the annual Palestinian commemoration of their mass displacement during the establishment of Israel. The ...

Bettmann/CorbisPalestinian refugees flee the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations—the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the ...

Nakba to Nakba, Palestinian life 76 years post-catastrophe is worse than 75. On the 76th commemoration of the Nakba, Al Jazeera looks at the difference the last year has made to the Palestinians.

The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a ...

The ceremony she attended on Thursday, Nakba Day, brought together about 100 Israelis and 100 Palestinians south of Jerusalem to hear stories of those displaced in 1948 and listen to mournful music.

Nakba was of their own choosing. Because one’s view of Israel is based on a more underlying view of the legitimacy of the state, there is no way to negotiate with Hamas or talk reason into their ...

Each Nakba along the way has had in common the quality of self-infliction. Palestinians would have had their own state in 2000 or in 2008 had they only said “yes” instead of “no.” ...

Palestinians know it as the Nakba — the Catastrophe. That day, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including my entire family, were forcibly displaced during the founding of the state of Israel.