Nakba Day, palestinians marks 77th anniversary amid Israel’s war on Gaza

This year, on Thursday, May 15, Palestinians commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, which marked the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948— against the backdrop of ongoing Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Nakba Day, observed annually on May 15, serves as a sombre reminder



of this mass exodus. Entire communities were uprooted and dispersed across the West Bank, Gaza, and neighbouring Arab countries.

The Nakba refers to the events of 1948, when the British Mandate ended and armed Zionist militias seized large parts of Palestine, displacing approximately 750,000 Palestinians during the first Arab-Israeli war.