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The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has criticised London's boycott of a Nakba commemoration at the UN.
![Most Palestinian refugees will never see their ancestral homes in the flesh [al-Araby al-Jadeed]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/2023-05/33%20%282%29_0.jpg?h=66a2249f&itok=TXsszb2V)
“Most inhabitants of the camps cannot visit their ancestral homes - but I want people to get to know them, through these images we can go there together,” explained photographer Ahmed al-Bazz.
"1948 was not the year of the Nakba, but the year of the start of the Nakba, which we continue to live in today," said a resident of Masafer Yatta.
Every year in May, Palestinians mark the Nakba. The term refers to the forceful displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes between 1947 and 1949. Some Palestinians mark the day by visiting homes lost in that period.
The Palestinian president has urged the UN to protect his people and stop Israel's continued violence against them on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba.
The Palestinians in the coastal enclave have gradually returned to their normal life after a five-day conflict between the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Israeli army, which left at least 33 Palestinians killed and more than 100 injuries.
Palestinian ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot was born in a refugee camp in Gaza in 1973 – the cruel consequence of a Nakba he wasn't alive to see.
Mahmoud Abbas will deliver a significant keynote speech at the United Nations headquarters on Monday to mark Nakba Day.
Palestinian protesters were attacked by police while far-right Israelis chanted "the Temple Mount is in our hands" and called for a repeat of the Nakba.
The Palestinian Authority announced a competition on Monday to design a memorial commemorating the 1948 Nakba set to be constructed in the occupied West Bank.