Mona Eltahawy Instagram – I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.”
He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years.
When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise.
Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence.
Repost from @middleeasteye
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Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948.
Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉
#Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May | Posted on 14/May/2024 20:43:58
