Palestinians commemorate Wednesday, May 15, the 71st anniversary of the Nakba, which created a new political reality, created an occupying entity called "Israel", on the ruins of 78% of the area of ​​the historic State of Palestine, which has has been constantly changing its map since 1948.
The "Nakba" was a tragic transformation in the life of the Palestinian people, after the theft of its land and assets, assets and licenses, and the systematic killings and displacement by the Zionist gangs in 1948.
The events of the Nakba actually started before May 15, 1948, and were chosen by the politicians to mark the beginning of the Palestinian Nakba when Zionist gangs attacked Palestinian villages and towns with the intent of destroying them or causing panic in the surrounding areas.
According to many historians and researchers, the process of forced displacement of the Palestinians was "planned and planned, with the aim of purifying Palestine of its Arab population." This process was accompanied by intensive campaigns of terrorism and massacres, which constituted one of the main reasons for leaving the Arabs of Palestine to their villages and cities.
The documented data indicate that during the Nakba period, the Zionist gangs controlled 774 villages and cities. It destroyed 531 Palestinian villages and cities and committed more than 70 massacres and massacres against the Palestinians, which resulted in the deaths of more than 15,000 Palestinians during the Nakba period.
Some 800,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their villages and towns; internally (to many Palestinian areas in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip) and externally (to some Arab countries).
Refugees and Figures
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Palestinians in the world has increased to 9 since the Nakba, reaching about 13.1 million at the end of 2018, of which 6.02 million are refugees.
The report shown that 28.4 per cent of the refugees live in 58 official refugee and UNRWA camps, 10 in Jordan, 9 in Syria, 12 in Lebanon, 19 in the West Bank (including Jerusalem) and 8 camps in the Gaza Strip.
He pointed out that the government data for 2017 showed that "the proportion of Palestinian refugees institute 43% of the total Palestinian population residing in the State of Palestine."
According to statistical data, about 800,000 Palestinians were displaced from their villages and cities out of the 1.4 million Palestinians who lived in historic Palestine in 1948 in a thousand and 300 Palestinian villages and cities.
These estimates represent the minimum number of Palestinian refugees as unregistered refugees. This number does not include Palestinians who were displaced from 1949 until the eve of the June 1967 war, as defined by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East They were transported in 1967 against the background of the war, and they were not refugees at all.
With regard to the number of martyrs, the number of Palestinian and Arab martyrs since the Nakba in 1948 and today (inside and outside Palestine) about 100 thousand martyrs, while recorded since 1967 million cases of detention.
Of the total number of Palestinians around the world, some 6.48 million (49 percent) live in "historic Palestine" (the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and Israel).
Continuing catastrophe
With this year´s anniversary of the Nakba solutions, the tragedy of the Palestinian refugees continue through the rejection of the occupation state of absolute implementation of international resolutions relating to the right of refugees to return to their homes and compensation for damage to the great suffering caused to them .
The continuing occupation authorities to this day the evictions and forced displacement against the Palestinians through the demolition of homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank, occupied, and the destruction of thousands of homes, land confiscation and annexation, and the attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Islamic and Christian holy sites, except for the repeated on the Gaza Strip and his family and the destruction of its infrastructure, and choked the siege of unjust attacks that have been going on for many years.
Despite the tragic reality of the Nakba, which is witnessed by the Palestinian people these days, the experts and politicians bet on the "level of awareness" of young Palestinians and the responsibility they bear to change this reality by opposing the occupation, which emerged recently during the Intifada in Jerusalem; The new generation that has not lived in the Nakba has emerged, but its reality is felt daily
Israeli laws pursue the memory of the Nakba
About seven decades have passed since the Nakba, but the occupation government and the Israeli parties continue to obstruct the revival of this occasion, not to mention the targeting of Palestinians living in the occupied territories in 1948 in various forms.
Where the right-wing government led by Benjamin Netanyahu continued to enact racist laws aimed at the Palestinian presence inside the Green Line. The occupation authorities enacted the so-called National Law, which states that "Israel is a national state for the Jewish people only."
The law states that "the right to self-determination in the State of Israel is limited to Jews, and that migration leading to direct citizenship is for Jews only" and that "Greater and unified Jerusalem is the capital of Israel" and that "Hebrew is the official language of the State "Arabic has lost its status as an official language.
At a time when the occupation authorities continued to crack down on Palestinians inside by imposing heavy taxes and restricting them to demolish their homes on the grounds that they are not licensed, let alone discrimination in the areas of health, education and housing
The deal of the century The
anniversary of the 71st Nakba coincides with the leaks of the American settlement plan in the Middle East, known as the "Deal of the Century", which is the administration of US President Donald Trump is working to address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by forcing the Palestinians to make concessions, including the status of Jerusalem, in preparation for the establishment of a regional alliance involving Arab countries and "Israel", to counter the rejectionists of Washington and Tel Aviv.
America and the Palestinian cause
US President Donald Trump officially announced his administration´s recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the capital of "Israel", and the transfer of the US embassy from "Tel Aviv" to Jerusalem, in a move that received condemnations and criticisms of Arab, international and Islamic.
On January 16, Washington began cutting aid to UNRWA, freezing some $ 300 million of its $ 365 million in aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Months after the decision to cut aid, the US administration decided on August 3 to cut all its financial aid to UNRWA.
On August 4, Foreign Policy magazine revealed that the Trump administration, with the support of his brother-in-law and adviser Jared Kouchner, and members of Congress, was working to end the status of a "refugee" for millions of Palestinians to stop the work of the UN Relief and Works Agency UNRWA).
On August 2, former Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah announced that the US administration had decided to stop all aid to the Palestinians. The resolution included "direct and indirect aid to the treasury, which comes in favor of infrastructure projects and development projects."
The US State Department announced on September 7 that it had set out $ 25 million in aid to Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem.
The United States closed the PLO office in Washington and closed its bank accounts.
The US administration also decided September 16 to expel the Palestinian ambassador, Hossam Zamelat and his family.
