What happened to the Palestinian people when Israel was established in 1948 ?
The UN unjustly recommended partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states against the wishes of the indigenous Palestinian majority who owned more than 93% of historic Palestine in 1947. Almost immediately after, Zionist militias began massacring Palestinians, forcing Palestinians from their homes, stealing their land and property, and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.
- By the end of 1948, Israel had pushed out or forced most Palestinians to flee from almost all of Palestine, destroyed hundreds of Palestinian cities, towns, and villages, and refused to allow Palestinian refugees to return home. Palestinians mark 1948 as the beginning of their Nakba, which means “catastrophe”.
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