77 Years On: Palestinians Mark the Nakba Not as Memory, but as a Living Reality

Jenin / PNN – By Yara Mansour
 

Seventy-seven years have passed since the Nakba — the mass displacement of Palestinians during the 1948 war — and yet for many, it is not a memory but an ongoing, lived experience. The grandfather was uprooted, and now the grandson is, too. In refugee camps, among the ruins of demolished homes, and across public squares, the Nakba remains etched into Palestinian life.

Palestinians who lived through the original catastrophe in 1948…