The Nakba - meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic - refers to a period of violence and mass displacement inflicted on the Palestinian people that amounted to ethnic cleansing, and this is still their nightmare today.
Today, for the people of Palestine, there’s no peace, security, or justice. There’s limited access to basic necessities. Even for children, who don’t start conflicts and are powerless to end them, there’s no safe place to escape the conflict.
Palestinians remember the beginning of the Nakba. In 1948, the newly founded state of Israel expelled more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homelands, eradicated more than 400 villages, and killed thousands. In the decades since then, the situation for Palestinians hasn’t improved - in fact, it’s grown ever more desperate.
Call for a sustained ceasefire in Gaza now: www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/de...