In Israel's call for mass evacuation Palestinians hear echoes of their original catastrophic exodus
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In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza many Palestinians fear a repeat of their mass exodus from what is now Israel. Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation. An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from what is now Israel before and during the war. Seventy-five years later, they and their descendants have not been allowed back because their return would render Jews a minority in Israel.
JERUSALEM (AP) — 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 tortur
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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.