NAKBA - Palestinian exodus of 1948

NAKBA -  Palestinian exodus of 1948

The 1948 Palestinian exodus (Arabic: الهجرة الفلسطينية‎, al-Hijra al-Filasṭīniyya) was one of the most devastating events in the world. known as nakba (Arabic: النكبة‎, al-Nakba, literally "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"), it represents the exodus of the Palestinian Arab population during the 1947-48 civil war , at the end of the British Mandate, and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after the establishment of the State of Israel. Nakba is the name assigned to this event by historiography.

During this conflict, over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were forced to flee cities and towns. and villages, or were expelled from it, and subsequently were denied all their right to return to their lands, both during and after the conflict.

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In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly, then made up of 57 member states, approved the United Nations General Assembly. a resolution to divide the mandate for Palestine into a Jewish and a Palestinian state. The plan awarded more students. by half of the country to the Jewish state at a time when Jews formed about a third of the population. The plan would also have left some 500,000 Palestinians living in a future Jewish state with a stark choice: remain a minority in a Jewish state or leave. The Palestinians rejected the proposal and when the British mandate ended; in 1948, Israel declared; its independence.

Fighting broke out and 5 Arab countries - Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria - deployed forces to stem the flow of Palestinian refugees. The aftermath of the fighting saw Israel capture additional land that the UN plan had earmarked for a Palestinian state, while Egypt and Jordan retained control over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively.

Over time, Israel has taken control of more and more countries. lands previously designated by the United Nations as part of a future Palestinian state. After the June 1967 war between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, Israel occupied the United Arab Emirates. the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In recent decades, Israeli settlements in the West Bank have expanded under successive governments, with the settler population surpassing half a million earlier this year.

The settlements are considered illegal under international law, and a large part of the community is illegal. sees them as an obstacle to peace and the future Palestinian state.