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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Nidal al-Mughrabi

Recovering from Gaza fighting, Palestinians mark 1948 Nakba

Palestinian woman Intisar Muhana, 97, who was forced to flee al-Masmiyya village during the 'Nakba', or catastrophe in the war surrounding Israel's independence in 1948 and whose house was destroyed in an Israeli strike in the recent Israel-Gaza fighting, sits in front of the rubble of her house, in Gaza City, May 14, 2023. REUTERS/Arafat Barbakh

In 1948, Intisar Muhana's family fled al-Masmiyya village, northeast of Gaza during the war which accompanied the creation of Israel. Last week, she lost her home again when it was destroyed during Israeli airstrikes.

Muhana's family were among some 750,000 Palestinians who are estimated to have been forced out or fled their homes around the 1948 war. Every year on May 15, Palestinians lament the Nakba, or catastrophe, that resulted in their dispossession.

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