Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. The scenes in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Gaza, and throughout occupied Palestine ‘48 have driven home the point clearly to people around the world: The Israeli settler-colonial project is one of systematic, massive violence targeting the Palestinian people. As we mourn the at least 153 lives taken so far this past week throughout occupied Palestine and on the border with Lebanon, as we express our outrage at the Israeli settlers seeking to uproot Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, we also recognize that this moment marks 73 years of the dispossession, expulsion and colonization of Palestine, the ongoing Nakba — the ethnic cleansing, colonization and occupation of Palestine that continues to this day — and 34 years since the Great Intifada of 1987, the echoes of which we see clearly in recent days.