The Nakba, Arabic for the catastrophe, is the term Palestinians use for the displacement of a majority of the Arab population of Mandatory Palestine during the war of 1948 that accompanied the creation of the State of Israel. Around seven hundred thousand Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes, and hundreds of villages were emptied or destroyed. The refugees and their descendants were not allowed to return, and they live in Gaza, the West Bank and neighbouring countries. Historians have disagreed about the relative role of fear, military operations and planned expulsions. The Nakba is remembered each year on 15 May and remains central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Before and after
- 14 December 1947Birth of Dilma Rousseff
- 1948Origins of Nippon Professional Baseball
- 1948Founding of Organization of American States
- 1948Founding of International Maritime Organization
- 1948Nakba
- 1948People's Daily
- 1948Claude Shannon founds information theory
- 7 January 1948Birth of Ichirō Mizuki
- 30 January 1948Death of Mahatma Gandhi
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