Archives for 17 May 2016

16 May 2016 – Anniversary of Al-Nakba

Excellency,160516 Palestine Letters

Yesterday, 15 May 2016, marked the passage of 68 years since Al-Nakba, the tragedy inĀ 1948 in which more than 800,000 Palestinians, 70 percent of our people, were forcibly uprooted and expelled from their homes and lands or fled in fear for their lives after brutal massacres were carried out in over 400 Palestinian towns and villages by Zionist terrorist groups in Mandate Palestine in a clear act of ethnic cleansing. On this solemn occasion, the Palestinian people reflect on their past and their present with sadness and sorrow as they continue to suffer and struggle for the realization of their inalienable human rights, including their right to self-determination. [Read more…]