On 15 May, Palestinians mark 77 years since the Nakba—the catastrophe that uprooted over 750,000 people from their homes in 1948. This year’s commemoration unfolds amid the deadliest chapter of that tragedy: an unrelenting assault on Gaza that has claimed the lives of over 53,000 Palestinians and left nearly 120,000 injured, most of them women and children.

What began as mass expulsion in 1948 has evolved into a prolonged campaign of erasure. In Gaza, hospitals lie in ruins, food and fuel are deliberately withheld, and entire neighbourhoods have been wiped off the map. In the West Bank and Jerusalem, the same policies of ethnic cleansing persist—home demolitions, land grabs, and the daily assault on Palestinian life and identity.

The occupation has never ceased. It simply changed shape—from colonial violence to military domination, from forced exile to a slow suffocation of life under siege. Yet Palestinians continue to resist, refusing to surrender their history, their land, or their right of return.

The Nakba is not just a memory—it is a wound that never healed, reopened every day by policies designed to erase a people. But 77 years on, Palestinians remain rooted in the conviction that justice is not a dream but a right—one they will never abandon.