UN Commemorates Nakba, Displacement Of Palestinians From Israel

The United Nations officially commemorated the Nakba, which signifies the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel.

The event acknowledges the U.N.'s role in the partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, took center stage at the U.N. commemoration, emphasizing the historic significance of the occasion.

The Palestinian U.N. ambassador, Riyad Mansour, also highlighted that the commemoration signifies the U.N.'s acknowledgment of its failure to resolve the catastrophe that has affected the Palestinian people for 75 years.

The Nakba commemoration draws attention to the plight of the estimated 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were displaced from their homes in 1948.

The decision to hold a U.N. commemoration came after the General Assembly approved a resolution in November 2022, requesting the U.N. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to organize the event.