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What happened successful Palestine successful 1948?

Every twelvemonth connected May 15, Palestinians astir the satellite people the Nakba, oregon catastrophe, referring to the taste cleansing of Palestine successful 1948.

Having secured the enactment of the British authorities for the instauration of a Jewish authorities successful Palestine, connected May 14, 1948, arsenic soon arsenic the British Mandate expired, Zionist forces declared the constitution of the State of Israel, triggering the archetypal Arab-Israeli war.

Zionist subject forces expelled astatine slightest 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands and captured 78 percent of historical Palestine. The remaining 22 percent was divided into what are present the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

The warring continued until January 1949 erstwhile an armistice statement betwixt Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria was forged. The 1949 Armistice Line is besides known arsenic the Green Line and is the mostly recognised bound betwixt Israel and the West Bank. The Green Line is besides referred to arsenic the (pre-) 1967 borders, earlier Israel occupied the remainder of Palestine during the 1967 war.

Israel’s military occupation of Palestine remains astatine the halfway of this decades-long struggle that continues to signifier each portion of Palestinians’ lives.

Mapping the Palestinian villages Israel destroyed

Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist subject forces attacked large Palestinian cities and destroyed immoderate 530 villages. About 15,000 Palestinians were killed successful a bid of wide atrocities, including dozens of massacres.

On April 9, 1948, Zionist forces committed 1 of the astir infamous massacres of the warfare successful the colony of Deir Yassin connected the occidental outskirts of Jerusalem. More than 110 men, women and children were killed by members of the pre-Israeli authorities Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist paramilitary organisations.

Palestinian researcher Salman Abu Sitta documented elaborate records of what happened to these 530 villages successful his book, The Atlas of Palestine.

Where are Palestinian refugees today?

Some six cardinal registered Palestinian refugees unrecorded successful astatine slightest 58 camps located passim Palestine and neighbouring countries.

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA) provides assistance and operates hundreds of schools and wellness facilities for astatine slightest 2.3 cardinal Palestinian refugees successful Jordan, 1.5 cardinal refugees successful Gaza, 870,000 refugees successful the occupied West Bank, 570,000 refugees successful Syria and 480,000 refugees successful Lebanon.

The largest camps successful each are Baqa’a successful Jordan, Jabalia successful Gaza, Jenin successful the occupied West Bank, Yarmouk successful Syria, and Ein el-Hilweh successful Lebanon.

More than 70 percent of Gaza’s residents are refugees. About 1.5 cardinal refugees unrecorded successful 8 exile camps astir the Gaza Strip.

According to planetary law, refugees person the close to instrumentality to their homes and spot from which they person been displaced. Many Palestinians inactive anticipation to instrumentality to Palestine.

The plight of Palestinian refugees is the longest unresolved exile occupation successful the world.

(Al Jazeera)