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The philanthropy of George Soros has awarded at least $1 million combined over the last decade to an organization in the Gaza Strip with ties to terrorists.
Many Palestinians in Gaza fear that the recent call by Israel for the evacuation of half of Gaza's population is reminiscent of the mass exodus that occurred during the 1948 war. Known as the Nakba, approximately 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee or were expelled from what is now Israel. These Palestinians, along with their descendants, settled in camps and built-up neighborhoods in other areas.
In Gaza, the vast majority of the population are Palestinian refugees, many of whose relatives fled from the same areas that Hamas attacked last weekend.
In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza’s population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation.
In Israel's call for the evacuation of half of Gaza's population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation. Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, or “catastrophe." An estimated 700,000 Palestinians, a majority of the prewar population, fled or were expelled from what is now Israel in the months before and during the war, in which Jewish fighters fended off an attack by several Arab states.