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BETWEEN 1947 and 1949, around 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and over 500 villages destroyed.
May 15, marks the Nakba, or “catastrophe” the day after the declaration of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.
For Palestinians, the Nakba doesn’t represent a singular event, but the ongoing process of colonisation and displacement of their lands and people.
Marking this year’s Nakba Day, the Morning Star is publishing a mini series by Palestinian writers from Gaza called Remembering the Nakba: Voices from Palestine.
The second instalment of the series features articles from We Are Not Numbers (wearenotnumbers.org), a collective of young writers from Gaza who put the human stories behind the numbers:
Psychologist and writer Khetam Sabbah remembers her grandmother’s traumatic account of the day she was forced to flee her home, forgetting in the chaos that she had left her child.
Author Rana Shubair explores the divide between Gaza's original citizens and newly arrived refugees following the nakba, which has been bridged over the years through shared suffering.
While Somaia K Abu Nada, explains how the grief of the Nakba is replayed from one generation to the next.
