On May 18, a photo of two Israeli soldiers circulated on social media. They were standing in front of a bullet-riddled house in what appeared to be Gaza. Its wall was spray-painted with the words ...

Gaza resident Badryeh Mohareb is old enough to remember what Palestinians call the "Nakba", or catastrophe of 1948. She is no stranger to conflict - but, she says, what she's facing now is worse.

In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, and in more violent and destructive ways. Gaza—Every year on May 15, ...

The Wikipedia article on the Nakba, which is Arabic for “catastrophe,” describes the events of Israel’s war for independence in 1948 as being “the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs.” The opening ...

Nakba is the Arabic word for “the catastrophe.” Approximately three-quarters of all Palestinians were violently displaced from their homes in 1948 following the creation of the State of Israel.

For the first time ever, the U.N. will commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, in which at least 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly expelled from their homes during the creation of ...

A man stands amidst destroyed cars at a scrapyard in the town of Huwara near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on February 27, 2023 after they were torched overnight. Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via ...

(RNS) — People who reflexively invoke Israel’s right to exist conflate the right of a nation to exist with the right to oppress. (RNS) — The state of Israel wants you to think it’s a democracy. But ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. When 71 years ...

Nearly eight decades after the Nakba – the mass displacement of Palestinians that led to the establishment of the state of Israel – its impact continues to shape the lives of millions in Palestine and ...

On a warm evening last week, Leila Giries sat in her California home, took a deep breath and pressed play on a film she says forced her to relive the most traumatic moment of her life. “Farha,” ...