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The Nakba explained in five maps and charts
By MEE staff - May 11, 2023
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The Nakba: All you need to know explained in five maps and charts

The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has created
the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history

Palestinians flee from an unidentified village in the Galilee after Zionist
attacks in 1948 (Reuters)

Published date: 11 May 2023 10:20 BST | Last update: 26 mins 7 secs ago

Every year on 15 May Palestinians mark the Nakba
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/nakba>, "catastrophe" in English,
when around 750,000 Palestinians
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine> were forcibly expelled
from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel> in 1948.

It is an event that has shaped politics in Israel and Palestine ever since,
and one which Palestinians say continues today in different forms of war,
occupation, siege, home demolitions, land confiscations and more.

Here, Middle East Eye breaks down the Nakba in five graphics.
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The events of the Nakba can be traced back to 1917, when Britain, in the
"Balfour Declaration", promised Zionists leaders that it would help
establish "in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people".

After capturing Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War
One (1914-18), Britain ruled over Palestine between 1923-1948 under a
"mandate" from the League of Nations.

Under 25 years of British rule, Palestinians were repeatedly suppressed,
while European Jewish immigration flourished and Zionist groups were
trained and armed.

[image: Nakba timeline (MEE)]

With Britain deciding to end its mandate over Palestine in 1947, and the
United Nations failing to enforce an alternative administration, Zionists
began attacking Palestinians as part of a systemic campaign of forced
expulsion.

[image: Zionist military campaign (MEE)]

By the end of the war, Zionist forces had killed 13,000 Palestinians,
destroyed and depopulated around 530 villages and towns, committed at least
30 massacres and expelled 750,000 people.

Around 150,000 Palestinians remained within the boundaries of the newly
formed state of Israel, many of them internally displaced.

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Those expelled in 1948 and their descendants number 5.8 million refugees
today, living mostly in neighbouring Arab countries.

Israel has never allowed Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland,
making their plight the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern
history.

[image: Palestinian refugees (MEE)]

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