77 Years of Nakba: We Were Never Meant to Survive — But We

May 15, 1948 — the day the world calls the “birth of Israel,”
we remember as the day we were torn from our land,
our homes burned, our families expelled,
our future rewritten — at gunpoint.

This is Al-Nakba, the catastrophe.
And it never ended.

Over 8 Million Palestinians Are Still in Exile

Today, more than 8 million Palestinians live outside their homeland.
In refugee camps from Lebanon to Jordan, in cities like Dearborn, Berlin, Santiago, Montreal — generations grow up knowing they are from Haifa, Lydd, Acre, Beersheba, but have never seen them.

We are the descendants of dispossession —
but we still carry the names, the keys, the hope.

We want to return. We will return.

 Gaza: Genocide in the Open

Since October 2023, over 53,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
Entire families have been buried under rubble.
Children starve in front of the world.

This isn’t a conflict — it’s an industrial-scale genocide designed to eliminate Gaza as a home for Palestinians.

And it’s part of the same project that began in 1948.

The West Bank: Ethnic Cleansing by Bullet and Bureaucracy

In the West Bank, the Nakba looks different — but it’s just as brutal.

• In Ein Samia, Zanuta, and Masafer Yatta, entire communities have been forcibly displaced.

• Settler militias with army backup torch farms, evict families, and build illegal outposts.

• Over 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in the past year.

 The War on Refugee Camps: Jenin & Tulkarm

The occupation’s war on Jenin, Tulkarm, and other refugee camps is not random.
It’s strategic.

These camps are not just physical spaces — they are living symbols of the Right of Retur
They represent 3rd and 4th generations of refugees who refuse to forget, who refuse to give up.
That’s why they are being targeted, raided, bombed, besieged.

The goal is to kill the idea of return — not just the people.

But the resistance in Jenin proves: we are still here.
And we will never accept erasure.

 The Attack on UNRWA: Erasing the Refugee Identity

UNRWA — the United Nations agency created to serve Palestinian refugees —
is under political and financial attack because of what it represents.

• It affirms that Palestinians are refugees — with a right to return.

• It documents our displacement, provides education rooted in our identity, and gives a name to our exile.

• That is why they want it gone.

Defunding and delegitimizing UNRWA is part of a long-term Zionist strategy:
to erase the status of refugees, and therefore erase the Right of Return.

 To Exist Is to Resist

As Palestinians, every single day is a fight to exist.
To speak. To work. To create.
To remember. To stay.

And despite war, exile, occupation, smear campaigns, and genocide —
we are still here.

We were never meant to survive —
but we do.
We love.
We plant.
We fight.
We build.
We remain.

🗝 The Right of Return Is Not a Dream — It’s a Right

We didn’t just lose homes in 1948.
We lost gardens, communities, languages, dreams.
But what we never lost is our right to return.

• Enshrined in international law.

• Etched into our identity.

• Passed down through generations.

We don’t want charity.
We don’t want pity.
We want justice.
We want return.