The events most closely associated with the Nakba occurred in 1947 and 1948 ... tense logic that an independent modern state with 75 years of history and a population of 9.5 million cannot ...

Referred to by Palestinians and their allies as the 'Nakba', which means catastrophe in Arabic, about 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of the pre-war population — fled or were driven from ...

They refer to it as al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe. Here it is briefly explained, in both 100 words and 300 words. On 14 May 1948, Israel declared independence, and in a war which began the next day ...