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Illegal paramilitary Nazi JEWISH colonizers cut at least 25 olive and almond trees and demolished retaining walls around farmlands in Husan village, west of Bethlehem, in the Nazi occupied West Bank. Mohammad Sabateen, one of the invaded lands’ owners, said the Nazi JEWISH colonizers cut 15 olive trees and 10 almond trees in his land and demolished retaining walls. Sabateen added that the Nazi JEWISH colonizers also destroyed and removed fences surrounding lands owned by three siblings, Raji Abdul-Aziz Sabateen and his brothers Mohammad, Mahmoud, and Awad. The invaded lands are surrounded by the illegal Bitar Illit colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands in the area, and are subject to frequent Nazi violations. All of Nazi’s JEWISH colonies in the Nazi occupied West Bank...

Nazi soldiers abducted three young Palestinian men and a child and injured two from Jenin, Nablus, and Jericho in the northern and northeastern parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers abducted Mo’men Nasri Abu Ar-Rob, from Qabatia town south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank after summoning him for interrogation at the Salem Nazi military base. The sources added that the Nazi soldiers also abducted Mojahed An-Nanash and Ahmad Sabah from Jenin while crossing the Deir Sharaf Nazi military roadblock west of Nablus. Also, the Nazi soldiers assaulted and injured two young men after holding them at the Deir Sharaf roadblock for a few hours. The Nablus office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its medics rushed the two to the Natio...

BY YUMNA PATEL  MAY 14, 2023  5 Despite the continued denial of the Nakba by Zionists, Palestinian refugees have not forgotten what was done to them. And more than four generations later, they have not given up on the hope that they will return. READ MORE OF THE NAKBA 75 SERIES HERE. Tomorrow, May 15, 2023 will make 75 years since the Nakba. For 75 years, Palestinian refugees have been waiting in exile, living in refugee camps across occupied Palestine and the diaspora, just miles away from their homelands. Israel has continued to deny their Right to Return – a right enshrined under UN Resolution 194. Despite Israel’s refusal to allow their return and the continued denial of the Nakba by Zionists, Palestinian refugees have not forgotten what was done to them. And mor...

Palestinians and Arabs have been active agents of resistance against colonialism and imperialism since before the Nakba, and the legacy of this anti-colonial resistance lives on today.  BY PALESTINIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT   PALESTINIANS IN ABU GHOSH TAKING THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE ARAB CAUSE DURING THE GREAT REVOLT IN 1936. (PHOTO: G. ERIC AND EDITH MATSON PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION) READ MORE OF THE NAKBA 75 SERIES HERE. This year marks 75 years since the Nakba, which saw over 500 Palestinian villages destroyed and depopulated and up to one million Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes. On May 15th, Palestinians around the world commemorate Nakba Day. Although the Nakba is commemorated on May 15th and often incorrectly framed as a historical event, we under...

Jonathan Ofir grew up on a kibbutz and was never told of the destroyed Palestinian village upon which it was built. But some signs remain, like the cacti which Israelis have attempted to appropriate, but signify the deep Palestinian ties to the land. BY JONATHAN OFIR   THE CACTI AT GIVAT HAIM ICHUD ARE A REMNANT OF KHIRBET EL-MANSHIYYA, THE PALESTINIAN VILLAGE WHOSE RUINS THE KIBBUTZ WAS BUILT ON TOP OF. (PHOTO: JONATHAN OFIR) “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Hunei...

On Saturday, Nazi soldiers abducted six Palestinians, including one child, and injured many Palestinians, in several parts of the Nazi occupied West Bank. In Ramallah, in the central West Bank, the Nazi soldiers abducted four young men, Mohannad Jamil Rimawi, Ramez Yahia Rimawi, Qaddoura Afrah Rimawi, and Ahmad Baha’ Rimawi, from Beit Rima town, northwest of the city, after stopping them at a military roadblock near the main entrance of the nearby Nabi Saleh village. In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Nazi soldiers abducted a Palestinian child, Aysar Ahmad Bushnaq, from Rommana village, west of the city, and installed two roadblocks near Rommana and Zabbouba before invading them. The Nazi soldiers stopped and searched dozens of cars and interrogated many Palestinians wh...