The Nakba (1948)
This Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
What is Nakba?
Before 1948, this was the term for the entire territory of modern-day Israel and the occupied territories.
What is historic Palestine?
This UN agency provides education and healthcare to Palestinian refugees.
What is UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency)?
Israel has maintained military control over this population since 1967.
Who are the Palestinians?
These fortified Jewish communities are built illegally on Palestinian land.
What are Israeli settlements?
Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day on this date every year.
What is May 15?
The 1949 Armistice Line, also known by this color, marked Israel’s borders until 1967.
What is the Green Line?
About this many Palestinian refugees are registered worldwide today.
What is six million?
Between 2009 and 2022, Israel demolished at least this many Palestinian-owned structures.
What is 8,413 structures?
About 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least this many settlements.
What are 250 settlements?
This event triggered the first Arab-Israeli war on May 14, 1948.
What is the declaration of the State of Israel?
The two main areas that make up the remaining 22% of historic Palestine are these.
What are the West Bank and Gaza Strip?
More than 70% of residents in this area are registered refugees.
What is the Gaza Strip?
Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing these two crimes against Palestinians.
What are apartheid and persecution?
Since 2008, Israel has waged this many wars on Gaza.
What is four wars?
Approximately this many Palestinians were expelled or fled during the Nakba.
What is 750,000 Palestinians?
This narrow, coastal territory has been blockaded by Israel since 2007.
What is the Gaza Strip?
The right that allows displaced people to go back to their homes under international law.
What is the right of return?
Around 4,450 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons; this day each year honors them.
What is Palestinian Prisoner’s Day (April 17)?
This 2021 conflict lasted from May 10 to May 21 and killed over 260 Palestinians.
What is the May 2021 Gaza bombardment?
This 1948 massacre near Jerusalem became one of the most infamous of the war.
What is the Deir Yassin massacre?
At roughly 365 square kilometers, Gaza is similar in size to this South African or American city.
What is Cape Town, Detroit, or Lucknow? (any one is correct)
The plight of Palestinian refugees is often described as this — the world’s ______ unresolved refugee problem.
What is the world’s longest?
The majority of demolitions occur in this West Bank area under full Israeli control.
What is Area C?
Many describe Gaza as this, due to the blockade and restrictions on movement.
What is “the world’s largest open-air prison”?