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Israel at 70: Why Gaza's refugees and their descendants will never forget their violent expulsion

Helm, Sarah
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/israel-palestinian-gaza-refugees-nabka-1948-descendants-history-a8347391.html

Publisher:  Independence
Date Written:  13/05/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Tuesday marks the anniversary of the start of the exodus from what became Israel, an event Palestinians call the Nabka (catastrophe). Sarah Helm visits Gaza to hear the views of residents old and young about their past and future

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Gathering along the buffer zone below us, the younger generation of Gazans were also defying Ben-Gurion's belief that they would forget. Clouds of tear gas float up towards us. We could see tents being erected and crowds gathering, preparing for the Great Return March, which culminates on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of the Nakba or "catastrophe", as Palestinians call the event that lead to their expulsion in 1948.

Everyone in the Great Return March knows full well they will not be returning to their '48 lands, as they call them – at least not any day soon. They know full well that they risk being killed by Israeli snipers by even approaching the barrier – 40 have been shot dead in the past four weeks. But for most protesters it will be an achievement just to show the world they have not forgotten what happened in 1948, even if the world has forgotten them.
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