Nakba Day Marked by Protests Worldwide

On May 15th and the days following, protests and events took place around the world to commemorate the 77th anniversary…

May 15, 2025, marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, a pivotal historical event that resulted in the large-scale displacement…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians everywhere in the world today mark the 76th anniversary of the…

By Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights – Published On May 15, 2023: On 15 May, Palestinians all over the world…

Derry, Ireland, May 15, 2023: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  Large crowds gathered throughout Ireland over the past few days to…

Human Rights Watch: Undue Interference with Rights to Free Expression and Assembly. This week, Palestinians and their supporters across the globe…

RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Hundreds of Palestinians marked today the 74th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948 when…

RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Ola Awad, the Chairperson of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said in…

May 27, 2021 – (Al-Haq) On 21 May 2021, a ceasefire announced the ending of Israel’s 11-day military offensive on…

One of the most difficult things to grasp in the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinians is the meaning…

MAY 15, 2021: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  A huge crowd gathered as The Derry Branch of the Ireland Palestine…

By Ilan Pappe for the Middle East Eye The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that…

By: Marwan E. Toubassi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Greece: Some memories permeate our very existence and penetrate…

On the eve of the Palestinian people’s catastrophe or Nakba anniversary, the Ramallah-based higher national committee for marking the Nakba,…

Israel’s ministry for military affairs has formed a secret unit tasked with concealing sensitive historical documents, with a special focus…

Palestinian National and Islamic Forces, the supreme coordinating body of the major Palestinian factions, has called for widespread participation in…

May 15, 2019/Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)/Palestine Palestinians in the homeland and in exile are commemorating the 71st anniversary of…

by Isra Ghourani 05/15/19 (WAFA) – In the early morning hours, the residents of Humsa al-Fawqa village, in the northern…

Palestinians, today, mark the 71st anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), when more than 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homeland,…

A global coalition launched a campaign, today, against the international tourism company, Airbnb, for reversing its decision to delist properties…

The Green Brigade Celtic Football Fan Club has organized a solidarity rally  to commemorate the 70th Palestinian Nakba and denounce…

by Amal Ahmad, Irene Calis, Haidar Eid, Razi Nabulse, for the  Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network. May 15, 2018 The Palestinian people have perhaps never…

Just a day after mass Israeli bloodshed in Gaza, the Palestinians are marking the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe),…

May 14, 2018 Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Reversing decades of US foreign policy, the Trump administration is…

Palestinian Authority spokesperson Yousef al-Mahmoud, on Monday, announced a general strike for Tuesday, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba,…

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council has issued a statement entitled: “The ongoing Nakba must end: the time has come…

60 Palestinian students from West Bank, East J’lem, Golan Heights, and citizens of Israel participated; one student: ‘I hadn’t considered…

Israeli occupation authorities are prepared to impose massive fines on Palestinians who commemorate the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a report…

International Protection to Stop the Ongoing Nakba is Long Overdue – BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights The…

The BDS National Committee (BNC) Commemorates the 69th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. It is possible… It is possible at least…

Despite Israeli authorities’ best attempts to erase history, the 1948 catastrophe is a basic component of collective memory for Palestinian…

What does it mean to advocate for compensation and repatriation when these processes are embedded within settler colonial and colonial…

by Amjad Iraqi The transnational solidarity movement between Palestinians and Black, indigenous, and other minority Americans has made significant strides in…

As Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (approximately 66% of Palestinian population worldwide) enter the 69th year of forced displacement…

By Manuel Hassassian – The 15th May marks the Palestinian Nakba. The word Nakba means ‘catastrophe’ because that is exactly…

The Israeli army on Wednesday closed the investigation into the killing of a Palestinian teenager during Nakba Day protests in…

On Friday 15th May 2015, hundreds of Palestinians from all over the West Bank traveled to Ni’lin for a mass…

The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, has…

Today (15th of May), during the Nakba day demonstration in Kafr Qaddum, four young men were shot with live ammunition…

For Palestinians, 2015 marks the 67th year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland.This ongoing Nakba (‘catastrophe’) continues…

More than 10,000 South African students marched, earlier today, in protest against Woolworths Stores’ trade agreements with Israel. 15th May…

Alrowwad Cultural & Theatre Society, today, organized a march commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Nakba. The group, mainly consisting…

Three Palestinians were injured by live fire during a Nakba Day demonstration in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to…

Thousands of Palestinians marched, on Thursday at night, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus marking the 67th anniversary…

In a massive protest march, thousands of Palestinians marched Wednesday, to late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s square in Ramallah, to…

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: “The Nakba did not end with the creation of Israel; rather, it is an ongoing process that…

[Translated from Arabic]Every Arab citizen inside the Green Line (Israel), seemingly, has the shelter to obtain a normal life, but,…

Cycle ’48 is a collective of 3 British women who all cycled to Palestine from the UK. The project aims…

Imagine if in the U.S. it were illegal to teach about the genocide of the Native Americans at the hand…

The Israeli army has threatened a Palestinian citizen in Beitunia, east of Ramallah, for his part in documenting the killing…

Attorney General Muhammad Abd al-Ghani al-Uweili has stated that the body of Nadim Nuwara will be exhumed and taken to…

Palestinians attended, on Friday, the funerals of Nadeem Siyam Nuwara, age 15, and Mohammad Odeh Abu al-Thahir, 17, who were…

In commemoration of the 66th annual Nakba day, hundreds of Palestinian youth from the Ramallah district moved against Israeli soldiers…

Palestinians commemorated, today, the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, by participating in a series of nonviolent actions…

[Thursday Evening, May 15, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers attacked Palestinians nonviolently protesting, marking the 66th anniversary…

As Israelis across the country celebrated their Independence Day, more than 10,000 Palestinians living in Israel and Jerusalem converged on…

As Israelis commemorated ‘Memorial Day’ on Monday, and began a series of events to lead up to ‘Independence Day’ on…

A new report published in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz describes the information found in a newly-uncovered document in the government…

Wednesday May 15 2013, hundreds of Palestinians marched in Jaffa marking the 65th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948, affirming…

Thousands of Palestinians marked, on Tuesday evening, the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, and participated in a huge procession organized…

Of the 11.4 million Palestinians worldwide, 66% are forcible displaced, (refugees and internally displaced people) and over half live in…

RAMALLAH, May 14, 2013 (WAFA) – On the eve of the Nakba (catastrophe) 65th anniversary, the refugees make almost half…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently issued its weekly report on Israeli violations in…

May 15, 2012 On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, a Palestinian child in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…

Today, 15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of…

Ma’an News reported Medics as saying that over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on…

The Palestinians mark the Nakba Day on May 15; the day armed forces uprooted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from…

The UN report into this years Nakba Day events along the Lebanese-Israeli borders has criticized Israels use of disproportionate force…

The UN Disengagement Force have reported their findings that Syria allowed Palestinian Refugees access to the Syria-Israeli occupied Golan border.…

Amnesty International has called on the Israeli state to undertake a full, impartial and independent investigation into the Israeli military…

Leaders from various Arab countries have begun to react Sunday’s events around Israel and the Occupied Territories, in which at…

An estimated four people were killed Sunday on the Syria-Israel border, five killed on the Lebanon-Israel border, 52 injured in…

Despite Israeli “laws” criminalizing the commemoration of the “Nabka Day”, that marks the creation of Israel on Palestinian lands and…

Three civilians were injured in the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as the villagers…

As the Palestinians prepare to mark the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day on May 15, thousands of Egyptians are said to be…

Bethlehem today marked al Nakba with a march through the town centre and speeches by local organisers and youth.The march…

Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli Army are set to increase West Bank deployment as Palestinians prepare…

A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to…

In a massive protest march, Saturday, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians marched through the city…

At least around 150 villagers along with Israelis and Palestinians gathered on Friday in the village of Al Ma’ssara, southern…

Radio Free Palestine is presented by the IMEMC (in Beit Sahour) and CKUT Radio (in Montreal) in commemoration of the…

The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JSCER) issued a press release slamming the Israeli decision to expel thousands…

At the southernmost area of the Gaza Strip, where the Philadelphia route separates the coastal enclave from Egypt, there are…

The Palestinian Police, which is under the control of the dissolved Hamas government in Gaza, barred on Friday a peaceful…

Spokesperson of the Wa’ed Society for Detainees and Freed Detainees,  Abdullah Abu Qandeel, stated on Thursday that the detainees in…

El portavoz de la Asociación Wa’ed para los Detenidos y los Liberados, Abu Abdullah Qandeel, declaró el jueves que los…

The Good Shepherd Church in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the Palestine Forum, held an activity on…

La Iglesia del Buen Pastor en la ciudad de Nablus, al norte de Cisjordania, y el Forum Palestino hicieron un…

Residentes Palestinos de Jerusalén, sus líderes políticos y sociales, llevaron a cabo una huelga general en la ciudad ocupada de…

The Regional Union of Arab Students in Israeli Universities organized on Thursday a protest at main entrance of the Hebrew…

La Unión Regional de Estudiantes Árabes en Universidades israelíes organizó el jueves una protesta en la entrada principal de la…

May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically…

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a number of Palestinians cities, towns, villages and refugee camps to commemorate…

El ejército dispara gases lacrimógenos y balas de goma a 100 jóvenes que se manifestaban en Qalandia Miles de Palestinos…

President of the United States, Gorge W.B Bush arrived on Wednesday in Israel to attend the Hebrew state’s celebrations of…

El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, George W.B. Bush llegó el miércoles a Israel para asistir a las celebraciones del…

The Israeli army attacked on Wednesday three Palestinian peaceful demonstrations in several parts of the West Bank, a number of…

El ejército israelí atacó el miércoles tres manifestaciones pacíficas palestinas en varias partes de Cisjordania, y se tiene constancia de…