Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba Saturday May 17 Gather at Noon Legislative Building
The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The result of the war was the permanent displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians, more than half of the Palestinian population at that time. The Nakba commemoration is a reminder not only of those tragic events of 1948, but of the ongoing injustice suffered by the Palestinians. The Nakba had a profound impact on the Palestinian people, who lost their homes, their land, and their way of life. It remains a deeply traumatic event in their collective memory and continues to shape their struggle for justice and for their right to return to their homes. The Nakba is not just a day or date, but an ongoing process of ethnic cleansing that continues to this day. It is the genocide in Gaza, it is the violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
