Nakba

The Nakba was the 1948 mass displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians, forced from their homes during the violent creation of the Israeli state. In 1947, the UN proposed a partition plan that granted 55% of Palestinian land to Jews, who made up just 33% of the population, without the consent of the native Palestinian people. By the end of the Nakba, Israel had seized 78% of historic Palestine by force, destroying over 400 villages in the process.

To this day, millions of Palestinians remain refugees or live under occupation, their right to return denied, their homeland fragmented, and their struggle ongoing.