You're now bragging about the Nabka?
The
Nakba (
Arabic: النَّكْبَة,
romanized:
an-Nakba,
lit. 'the catastrophe') is the
ethnic cleansing[4] of
Palestinian Arabs through their
violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their
culture,
identity, political rights, and
national aspirations.
[5] The term is used to describe the events of the
1948 Palestine war in
Mandatory Palestine as well as the
ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians by
Israel.
[6] As a whole, it covers the fracturing of Palestinian society and the long-running rejection of the
right of return for
Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
[7][8]
During the foundational events of the Nakba in 1948, approximately half of Palestine's predominantly Arab population, or around 750,000 people,
[9] were
expelled from their homes or made to flee through
various violent means, at first by
Zionist paramilitaries, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by
its military.
Dozens of massacres targeted Palestinian Arabs and
over 500 Arab-majority towns, villages, and urban neighborhoods were depopulated,
[10] with many of these being either completely destroyed or repopulated by
Jews and
given Hebrew names.
Haganah employed
biological warfare against Palestinians by
poisoning village wells. By the end of the war, 78% of the total land area of the former
Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel.