Gaza City: A Palestinian woman holds a placard and a symbolic key to her family house during a Nakba Day rally, May 14, 2013.
Palestinian protesters are attacked by Israeli occupation soldiers following a rally marking Nakba Day in Beit Omar village, north the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 15, 2013.
May 15th marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba - when 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. In 1948, more than 50% of the entire Palestinian population was ethnically cleansed.
In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, we are releasing ‘An Ongoing Displacement’. The new visual quantitatively catalogues the multiple dimensions of Palestinian displacement and loss of land.
Visualizing Palestine
Thousands of Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of the Nakba Wednesday, as Israeli forces violently repressed demonstrations in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Nakba, or catastrophe, refers to the 1948 campaign to cleanse Palestine of non-Jews, which drove more than 750,000 Palestinians away from their homes.
Israeli police violently attacked a protest in Jerusalem, beating demonstrators and spraying them with “skunk” waste water. Footage on al-Mayadeen showed a member of the Israeli police forces shoving a man on crutches who was walking up a flight of stairs.
A Palestinian sets fire to a tire during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba Day or “Day of Catastrophe” on May 15, in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Commemorating Nakba Day (Catastrophe) in front of the General Post Office in Dublin, Ireland.
Photo by Tigeress Eye