15 May 2024

Lede: Experts have pointed out similarities in the ethnic cleansing from the
Nakba and the current war in Gaza

Nearly half a million Palestinian civilians have fled Gaza's southern city of
Rafah on 15 May as Israel's threat to invade continues to loom overhead.

The mass forced displacement of civilians continues as Palestinians mark the
76th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba.

The Nakba, Arabic for "catastrophe," paved the way for the creation of the
Israeli state when Zionist paramilitaries drove around 750,000 Palestinians out
of their homes and villages, many seeking refuge in what would become the Gaza
Strip and West Bank and sanctuary in surrounding Arab nations.

Zionist militias attacked Palestinian villages in efforts to form a Jewish
state, ethnically cleansing it from its indigenous inhabitants.

Nakba Day comes as battles rage on between the Palestinian resistance and
Israeli forces. The UN estimates that roughly 450,000 Palestinians have been
forcibly displaced from Rafah since 6 May, and nearly 100,000 from northern
Gaza.

In just a week's time, effectively, a quarter of Gaza's population of 2.4
million has been displaced yet again.

More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel's onslaught
of violence against Gaza. At least 14,500 of those killed were children.

Protests and actions commemorating the Nakba tragedy have sprung up across the
globe in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
-- Cont'd at https://thecradle.co/articles/palestinians-commemorate-76th-nakba-day-as-half-a-million-flee-rafah