700000 Palestinians were uprooted from their homes in the wake of the establishment of Israel on the land of Palestine in 1948 creating a refugee crisis that is still not resolved. Palestinians call this mass eviction the Nakba — Arabic for “catastrophe” — and its legacy remains one of the most intractable issues in the faltering peace negotiations.
Today there are more than 7 million Palestinian refugees defined as people displaced in 1948 and their descendants. A core Palestinian demand in peace negotiations is the “right of return” for those refugees to their homeland.
