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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">The Nakba explained in five maps and charts</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By MEE staff - May 11, 2023<br></div>
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<span>The Nakba: All you need to know explained in five maps and charts</span>
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<p>The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has
created the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history</p>
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<p>Palestinians flee from an unidentified village in the Galilee after Zionist attacks in 1948 (Reuters)</p>
<p><span>Published date:</span> 11 May 2023 10:20 BST
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<div><p>Every year on 15 May Palestinians mark the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/nakba" target="_blank">Nakba</a>, "catastrophe" in English, when around 750,000 <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a> were forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a> in 1948.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Here, Middle East Eye breaks down the Nakba in five graphics.</p>
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<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Nakba-intro-graph-mee-2023.png" alt="." class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="457" height="417"></p>
<p>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".</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Under 25 years of British rule, Palestinians were repeatedly
suppressed, while European Jewish immigration flourished and Zionist
groups were trained and armed. </p>
<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Nakba-timeline-graph-mee-2023_0.jpg" alt="Nakba timeline (MEE)" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="379" height="457"></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Nakba-plan-graph-mee-2023_0.png" alt="Zionist military campaign (MEE)" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="120" height="457"></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Around 150,000 Palestinians remained within the boundaries of the
newly formed state of Israel, many of them internally displaced. </p>
<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Nakba-aftermath-graph-mee-2023_2.png" alt="." class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="389" height="457"></p>
<p>Those expelled in 1948 and their descendants number 5.8 million refugees today, living mostly in neighbouring Arab countries. </p>
<p>Israel has never allowed Palestinian refugees to return to their
homeland, making their plight the longest unresolved refugee crisis in
modern history. </p>
<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Nakba-refugees-graph-mee-2023_0.png" alt="Palestinian refugees (MEE)" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="121" height="457"></p>
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