Around 300 pro-Palestinian protesters gather in Astoria, Queens, in New York to mark the 76th anniversary of the "Nakba" or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine when around 760,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 creation of Israel.
After receiving support from the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on 14 May 1948, as soon as the British Mandate expired, Zionist forces declared the establishment of the State of Israel, which triggered the first Arab-Israeli war.
Zionist military forces expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands and captured 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent was divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.
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16 май 2024