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The Portuguese parliament has adopted a resolution recognising the Palestinian Nakba and the Palestinian people’s struggle for self-determination.
Activists commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba at the UK parliament, with British-Palestinian MP Layla Moran telling the story of how she found her ancestral home in Jerusalem.
The Nakba Commemoration Bill presented by MP Layla Moran on Monday urges the UK government to annually mark the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that took place in 1948.
The event, held at the UN's headquarters in New York, marked the 75th year since close to 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to deliver a speech at the United Nations in New York as part of the Nakba commemorations.
Analysis: Israel's foundational myths serve to justify the organised ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as self-defence by distorting the historical events of 1948.
The Nakba - or catastrophe - saw Israeli forces ethnically cleanse over 750,000 Palestinians to found Israel.
She said, "Palestinians and us as Americans have the right to explain the Nakba of 1948."
Analysis: Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has been gifted the keys to the West Bank, an unprecedented concession that allows him to realise his 2017 manifesto to annex Palestinian territory and turn it into a Jewish theocracy.
Israel's killing of Shireen Abu Akleh was front and centre as UK protesters flooded the streets the day before Nakba Day to demand justice for Palestinian victims of Israeli ethnic cleansing.