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NAKBA, or CATASTROPHE according to the Palestinians
2025-04-03 15:57:15 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic. The most dramatic event for Palestinians. The term refers to the 1948 war in which Israel fought against several Arab countries. In the end, about 700,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their homes and become war refugees.
The “Nakba” is commemorated every May 15, the day after the founding of the state of Israel. At that time, persecuted Jews in Europe fled to Palestine. When the war ended, the UN made a partition plan: 56% of the territory went to the Jews. The rest, to the Palestinians. Jerusalem remained neutral territory.
The Jewish leadership accepted the UN proposal. On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel. The United States and the Soviet Union recognized the new state. The Palestinians rejected the resolution because Palestine had been Arab territory for centuries.
A coalition of Arab states attacked Israel. The Israeli army counterattacked, capturing large parts of the territory that the UN had given to the Palestinians. After Israel's victory, hundreds of villages were destroyed and an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes.
The Israelis now controlled a much larger territory than the UN plan had envisaged: the Acre region near the border with Lebanon, the Negev desert to the south, and a strip of territory between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The problem was that these were territories inhabited by thousands of Palestinian Arabs.
Many were forced to flee, others were expelled by the Israeli army. A typical example is Jaffa, a historic Arab city, which became a neighborhood of Tel Aviv, the Israeli city founded in 1909. In Haifa, another Arab port city, dozens of Palestinian villages were destroyed and repopulated by Israeli settlements.
INABILITY TO RETURN HOME
At the end of 1948, the UN passed a new resolution guaranteeing the Palestinians the “right of return” to their homes. But Israel did not accept the decision. Even before the war, many Jews believed that it would be easier for Palestinians to move to a neighboring Arab state.
Today it is impossible for Palestinians to return to their homes, as they have either been destroyed and replaced with other houses or have never been rebuilt./ Bota.al
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