Palestinians have been marking the anniversary of their mass displacement during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
Palestinians have this week been marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba – which means catastrophe in Arabic. The term refers to the mass displacement of Palsetinians during the 1948
In 1947, while Palestine was under British mandate rule, the United Nations General Assembly agreed a plan to partition it into Arab and Jewish states and for international rule over Jerusalem. Jewish leaders accepted the plan, giving them 56 per cent of the land. The Arab League rejected the proposal.
Violence had been intensifying between Arabs, who made up about two thirds of the population in the late 1940s, and Jews. A day after Israel was created, troops from five Arab states attacked.
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