"I can coexist with Israelis but only when I return home," says Nakba survivor | The Electronic Intifada
"I can coexist with Israelis but only when I return home," says Nakba survivor | The Electronic Intifada
Palestine
Kadima!” — a Hebrew word meaning “advance quickly” — is one of the
words that Um al-Walid Eid still remembers from the day she, her husband
and their two small children, along with the approximately 2,600 other
Palestinian inhabitants, were forcibly expelled from the village of
Zarnuqa.
Beginning in late 1947 and throughout 1948, Zionist
militias and later the Israeli army began the organized expulsion of
Palestinians. Some 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from more
than 450 from villages, towns and cities in Palestine; the violent
dispossession has since been called the Nakba. This catastrophe is
marked each year on 15 May — Nakba Day.
“Our life was great. We lived in peace, working in our own lands,” Um
al-Walid Eid says of Zarnuqa village before the 1948 ethnic cleansing
of Palestine.
