The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba, occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1947-1948 civil war in Palestine and ...

As the world looks back on 1948, Nakba descendants look to return to Palestine Young Palestinians in the US re-examine their lives and lineage as Israel's war rages on in Gaza ...

From 1948 to now, a Nakba that never ended Seventy-seven years ago, my grandfather was forced from his home. Now I’m reliving that same trauma in the ruins of Gaza.

The people who support the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are correct. But they are 77 years too late. Palestine was freed in 1948. From British rule. From 1920 ...

My father, George Kuttab, and his mother, our Tata Nazira Fatalleh, fled their neighborhood of Musrara in what is now West Jerusalem in May 1948, after their sister Hoda’s husband, Elias, was ...

TEL AVIV, May 14, 1948 (UP) -- The new Jewish state of Israel was proclaimed in Palestine today as Britain's 30-year rule of the Holy Land ended.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — As a 4-year-old, Ghalia Abu Moteir was driven to live in a tent in Khan Younis after her family fled their home in what’s now Israel, escaping advancing Israeli ...

In this Cold War-era documentary, we examine the root causes of the First Arab-Israeli War of 1948. From the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust to the UN’s decision to partition ...

VOX POPULI: A portrait of Palestine’s neighborhoods before May 1948 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. May 15, 2025 at 12:52 JST ...

My Palestinian Family Had a Home in West Jerusalem. Then Came 1948. Today, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, when we were removed from our homes and land. We carry the stories of our families ...