Nakba Day 2025

Lines of people, mainly children, waiting for water, Al Rimal, Gaza - 5.05.2025. Image: Ahmed Dader

Source: Amos Trust

The Amos Trust writes:

'Today, 15 May is Nakba Day - marking 77 years since over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and more than 520 towns and villages were destroyed as part of the creation of the State of Israel.

These refugees, and their descendants - whether displaced within Israel or to Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan - have been denied their legal right to return. Many still live in the refugee camps first established by the UN.

What we are witnessing in Gaza today is a continuation of the same project that began with the Nakba in 1948: the violent removal of Palestinians from their land. As Israeli historian Ilan Pappé puts it, this is not a new story - just one in which the techniques have become more brutal, more efficient and more indifferent to human life.

Since 2nd March, no food, water, fuel or medical aid has been allowed into Gaza. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC):

93% of Gaza's population (1.95 million people) are facing acute food shortages
244,000 people (12%) are now enduring catastrophic hunger.
Israel and the US have announced a joint plan to replace 400 UN-administered food distribution sites across Gaza with just four hubs in Rafah, run by the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, with Israeli military security.

These hubs would only provide aid to 1.2 million people (60% of the population), and force yet more displacement into an increasingly uninhabitable corner of Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israel's leadership has made its intent clear. Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to use the country's "full force" in Gaza. Since 18th March, nearly 2,800 people have been killed and more than 7,800 injured. The aim: to make life so unbearable that Palestinians will 'volunteer' to leave Gaza.

This is not just war - it is genocide.
It is ethnic cleansing. It is Nakba.

Read the full Amos Trust Gaza update HERE

Watch this urgent appeal from Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, to the UN Security Council: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAuHd40joYY

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