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Two children, aged 4 and 5, being abducted by Israeli soldiers. The journalist: "Why are you arresting children without an adult present?" The soldier: "Get lost, move along, there's nothing to see here."
78 years ago, Israel declared itself a state. Palestinians now commemorate the day after — May 15 — as the anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe.” Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias massacred thousands of Palestinians and violently forced over 750,000 from their homes.
A report by the Euro-Med Monitor documents dozens of testimonies from Palestinian victims from the #Gaza Strip who were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, inside Israeli prisons and detention centres ⬇️
Today is "Nakba Day," the day 78 years ago that five Arab armies invaded Israel. May 15, 1948, was supposed to be the end of the Jewish state. A civil war had already raged for 7 months triggering the flight of hundreds of thousands. 100,000 Jews in Jerusalem had been under siege for 5 months. The day-old State of Israel was under an arms embargo. So when the British-trained Arab Legion crossed the Jordan River, Syrian Renault tanks crossed the border, and Egyptian Spitfires bombed Tel Aviv, it was a time of hope and excitement across the Arab world. But Nakba means “catastrophe.” Not the catastrophe of them rejecting a Palestinian Arab state. Not the catastrophe of them losing the UN Partition vote. Not the catastrophe of triggering the refugee crisis that had already begin months before. May 15 is not the beginning of the war or even the end of the war. May 15 marks the catastrophe of the failed attempt to destroy the Jewish state, and the humiliation that followed. It is not a coincidence that Nakba falls on May 15.
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