This documentary by Al Jazeera, which is in five parts, contains historic films, photographs, interviews with Palestinians, Israelis and international journalists and personalities.

Al Nakba (“the catastrophe”) is the term given to the expulsion by the Zionist army of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the war to establish the state of Israel. An estimated 750,000 –800,000 Palestinians were driven out and approximately 531 Palestinian villages and 11 towns were destroyed. The vast majority of refugees, both those outside the 1949 armistice lines at the war’s conclusion and those internally displaced were barred by the newly declared state of Israel from returning to their homes or reclaiming their stolen property.

Al Nakba began before 1948 and continues until the present. Al Nakba Day is generally commemorated on 15 May. For the Palestinians it is an annual day of commemoration of the displacement and expulsion that followed the Israeli “Declaration of Independence” in 1948.

The evening has been arranged by Frauen in Schwarz (Wien) (www.fraueninschwarz.at) in cooperation with the Verein Kulturzentrum Spittelberg (www.amerlinghaus.at)

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