play Live Sign upShow navigation menuplay Live Click here to searchsearchSign upToggle PlayNakba Day: 78 years of ethnic cleansing
On May 15, Palestinians across historic Palestine and the diaspora commemorate the ‘Nakba’ or the ‘catastrophe’ of 1948. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami explains how Zionist militias tore through Palestinian society and displaced 800,000 people after the British laid the foundations for dispossession.
