Filling the gap in the Palestine information space
Palestine Explained is your guide to digital resources on Palestine, providing you with curated content from reliable sources to explore Palestine’s past and understand its present.
Preview Page: Nakba Key Questions
- What is the Nakba?
- What was life like in Palestine prior to the Nakba?
- How did World War I set Palestine on the path towards the Nakba?
- How did Britain create asymmetries in Palestine that enabled the Nakba?
- How did British security policy–particularly during and after the Arab Uprising of 1936-39–create the conditions for mass expulsion?
- What did Palestinians do to prevent and resist the Nakba?
- How were Palestinians removed from their land in the Nakba?
- What was the scale of the Nakba, and why do Palestinians understand it as a catastrophe?
- What do Palestinians mean when they say the Nakba is ongoing?
- Where do Palestinian refugees live, and how many Palestinians are there in the world today?
- What is the right of return?
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