Nakba Day

Abd Al Mannan Shbita speaks to Palestinian and Jewish Israeli activists, at the site of the former village of Miska, depopulated in the 1948 war, central Israel, April 22, 2026. (Iddo Elam, Zochrot)
Israel blocked the March of Return. Palestinians marked the Nakba anyway
After police prevented the main procession, families returned to depopulated villages across the country, keeping alive the memory of what was lost in 1948.
By Baker Zoubi April 28, 2026
Photos of Palestinian refugees displayed at the entrance to the Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony in Beit Jala, the West Bank, May 14, 2025. (Combatants for Peace)
Remembering the Nakba while witnessing a genocide
As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Beit Jala not only to mark the catastrophe of 1948, but to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.
By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman May 19, 2025
Palestinians take part in the “March of Return” to the destroyed village of Al Lajjun, April 26, 2023. (Oren Ziv)
How the Nakba’s second generation absorbed their parents’ trauma
From the food we ate to the work we chose, the Nakba permeated everything in the lives of the children of Palestinian refugees displaced in their homeland.
By Samah Salaime May 17, 2023
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Suleiman and Sharifa, maternal grandparents of +972 editor Vera Sajrawi. (Courtesy)
Sharifa’s Nakba: Retracing my family’s escape from Haifa
+972 editor Vera Sajrawi sets out to uncover the hidden story of her grandparents' expulsion in 1948, walking the streets on which they used to live before being made refugees in their own homeland.
By Vera Sajrawi May 15, 2023
Israeli police officers arrest a Palestinian student ahead of a Nakba Day event at Tel Aviv University, May 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
On Israeli campuses, Palestinian student activists fear for their safety
A spike in harassment and arrests of Palestinian organizers shows that Israeli universities are far from the liberal bastions they profess to be.
By Maiyse Abuleil June 15, 2022
Palestinian students wave flags at the Nakba Day ceremony at Tel Aviv University, May 15, 2022. (Activestills)
What’s behind Israel’s intensifying war on the Palestinian flag?
On both sides of the Green Line, Israel’s escalating attacks against the very sight of Palestinian flags betrays the insecurity of its colonial project.
By Orly Noy May 26, 2022
Palestinian students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem protest a violent escalation that followed Nakba Day, while Jewish Israeli students counter-protest opposite them, May 16, 2011. (Ruben Salvadori/Flash 90)
Palestinian students battle militarization of Hebrew University
Palestinian students released a video on Nakba Day highlighting the growing militarization of their university campus, sparking right-wing calls for a criminal investigation.
By Oren Ziv May 27, 2020
Protesters carry away someone who was shot by an Israeli sniper along the Gaza border, May 14, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
The bloody scenes I’ll never forget from Gaza’s Return March
A year ago, Israeli forces gunned down 64 demonstrators during Gaza’s Great Return March. Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary was there to see it all — the bloody stretchers, the wounded, and the dead. By Hind Khoudary GAZA CITY — F16s are flying on low velocity over the Gaza sky as I get flashbacks to May 14 of…
By +972 Magazine May 15, 2019
Palestinian citizens of Israel take part in the Return March, held at the destroyed village of Khubbeiza, to mark Nakba Day, May 9, 2019. (Mati Milstein)
PODCAST: The other Palestinian march of return
The +972 Podcast heads to the destroyed village of Khubbeiza to hear what Nakba Day means to different people, including Palestinians internally displaced in Israel. Every year for over two decades, thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel have marked Nakba Day by marching to the site of a different village that was depopulated and destroyed…
By +972 Magazine May 15, 2019
Abdullah Abu Rahmah being arrested by Border Police in Bil'in, May 13, 2016
Palestinian activist sent to prison for ‎riding a bike in his village
An Israeli military court sentenced Abdullah Abu Rahma, a recognized human rights defender, to 110 days in prison for riding a bicycle during a protest against the occupation two years ago. An Israeli military court sentenced renowned Palestinian activist Abdullah Abu Rahma to four months in prison on Wednesday, for two charges stemming from a bicycle race to mark Nakba Day…
By Oren Ziv November 14, 2018
Palestinian journalist Ali Dar Ali seen in Ofer Military Court on August 20, 2018. (Oren Ziv)
One of Palestine’s most popular journalists is in jail for incitement
Ali Dar Ali was arrested for two posts he published on Facebook. But the prosecution and the judge are far more concerned with his large following than the content of the posts. By Oren Ziv Israeli forces arrested Ali Dar Ali, one of the most renowned Palestinian journalists in the West Bank, at his home near Ramallah last week, for incitement…
By Oren Ziv August 21, 2018
A group of Palestinian women demonstrate during a protest on the Gaza border, May 14, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
Gaza’s protest leaders still believe in nonviolent struggle
Despite the bloodletting in Gaza over the past months, the leaders of the Great Return March believe that nonviolent resistance is still the best way to end the siege. Rami Younis spoke to Hasan al-Kurd, one of the leaders of the march about the successes, mistakes, and future of the movement.  While everyone this past week focused on Israeli…
By Rami Younis May 25, 2018
Hundreds of Israelis demonstrate in central Tel Aviv against the killing of 60 unarmed Palestinians at the Gaza protest the day before, May 15, 2018. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)
Across Israel, hundreds protest Gaza violence
From Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Umm al-Fahm, Israelis and Palestinians take to the streets to protest the killing of 60 demonstrators in Gaza a day earlier. Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis across the country protested Tuesday against the Israeli army killing of 60 demonstrators in Gaza the day before. Some of the protests were…
By +972 Magazine May 15, 2018
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