What is Nakba?

World Today

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-NAKBAPalestinian demonstrators dressed in striped t-shirts marking internment camp outfits hold up signs with slogans written in Hebrew reading “soldiers, we are not objects, we are humans”, “Gaza is the biggest and the ugliest prison in the world”, “Gaza is a Nazi victim”, and “humanitarian disaster in Gaza, we want a solution”, during a demonstration near the border with Israel east of Gaza City on May 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Israeli forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians and wounded thousands in the Gaza Strip during six-weeks of protests leading up to the 70th anniversary of #NakbaDay.

Here’s what this day means to Palestinians: