Palestinians mark 74th Nakba amid anger over journalist’s killing. Solemn anniversary comes at a time when many are angered by the killing of Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

More than 15,000 Palestinians were killed and 531 towns and villages destroyed during al-Nakba, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, an institute of the Palestinian Authority ...

Mahmoud Salah, another survivor of al-Nakba, said the violence depicted in “Farha” was eerily similar to what he saw as he fled from the Palestinian village of Sar’a.

Al-Kilani said his family and others displaced by the Nakba believed they would return to their lands in months if not weeks. “Today, it’s been 75 years… but hope does not stop,” he said.

Al-Nakba is an ongoing process of “memoricide” (to use Ilan Pappe’s term)-the wiping out of individual and collective memory, in the hope that it cannot be rekindled.

In Arabic, the word "nakba" means catastrophe or disaster. In reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the term Nakba or al-Nakba refers to the Palestinians' loss of their homeland between ...

Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank held demonstrations in commemoration of "Al Nakba" also known as the catastrophe. Each year Palestinians commemorate Al Nakba on May 15, marking the ...

For the Palestinian people, the Nakba did not end in 1948, as its legacy continues to overshadow their present and future. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, Israeli authorities have been ...

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Zarqa trembled with fear as he watched panicked crowds of people, screaming and covered in blood, rush into ...

Mahmoud Salah, another survivor of al-Nakba, said the violence depicted in “Farha” was eerily similar to what he saw as he fled from the Palestinian village of Sar’a.

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Zarqa trembled with fear as he watched panicked crowds of people, screaming and covered in blood, rush into his small village on the outskirts of Jerusalem ...