8min report on the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba

Program Title: IMEMC Report
Description: Remembering the Nakba is not only an annual activity the Palestinians like to organize. On one hand, it is an annual action to reaffirm Palestinians’ right to their native homeland, and on the other hand, it is a call to the international community to recognize that while this date marks the day of independence for Israel, May 15, 1948 also marks a day of catastrophe whose victims were, and still are, the over 750,000 Palestinian refugees that were dispossessed from their native homelands.
Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, Israel, and all over the world, in many cities, villages and refugee camps, are commemorating 62 years of dispossession which they describe as the Nakba day.
In Bethlehem, the Popular Committee against the Wall and settlements, as well as a number of organizations and activists, are planning a rally in the village of Al-Ma'asara where Israel is expanding part of the annexation wall, which is, as the Palestinians see it, a continuation of the Nakba.
Mahmoud Zawahra, a member of the Popular committee in Al-Ma'asara village

In the village of Bil’in, the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements is planning to commemorate the Nakba during their weekly anti-wall nonviolent protest. Speaking to Eyad Burnat, head of the committee, he said the plan is to have a number of the demonstrators wear Handala costumes. Handala is a character invented by the late Palestinian cartoonist Naji El-Ali, in which he features a young boy giving his back to the audience, looking at his lost land, awaiting to return. Since then, Handala has become one of the main symbols of refugees and return, along with the key and the tent.
Palestinians in Haifa have decided to commemorate the Nakba by touring around the city with youth, explaining to them the history of the Nakba,
Rabee Ghbraya, a 17-year old youth from Haifa and one of the organizers of the activity

Palestinians are determined to keep the memory of the Nakba alive in the minds of all people, including young Palestinians.

The Nakba commemoration activities also carry a message of peace, with hopes that the international community will one day realize the injustices that have been inflicted on the Palestinian people, in 1948, and throughout the last 62 years.

The ultimate goal of the Nakba commemorations is to contribute what is necessary in order to retrieve the rights of the Palestinian people to self determination and to implement the international resolutions to get the Palestinian refugees to their land in order for peace to prevail. There cannot be peace without justice.
From IMEMC.ORG for Radio Free Palestine, this is George Rishmawi in occupied Bethlehem, Palestine.

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