'While we were running, my father-in-law told me it is better to die in our home than to run away. So, we came back.' Beit Safafa resident Lahva Eleyyan says as Palestinians mark anniversary of 1967 Middle East war
The Naksa or"the day of the setback" refers to the annual commemoration of the 1967 war in which Israel invaded Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The "Naksa," Arabic for "the setback," refers to the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians as a result of the Israeli invasion of 1967. Israel brought more than one million Palestinians under its direct control in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. By the end of the war, it had expelled 300,000 Palestinians from their homes.
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