00:01Palestinians mark the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli
00:11War, from lands that make up modern-day Israel.
00:14Palestinians gathered throughout the occupied West Bank and Gaza, as well as in Ramallah, where they demanded the right of
00:22return to ancestral cities and towns,
00:24a request that has been part of decades of peace negotiations and is central to the narrative of the conflict.
00:47Mosques throughout Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered, blared a commemorative siren for 78 seconds.
00:56An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were either driven from their homes or fled during the Nakba.
01:04Older Palestinians still inhabit refugee camps in both territories, in the West Bank and Gaza.
01:11In December 1948, the UN General Assembly began calling for the return of refugees, property restitution and compensation.
01:20However, the rights of the Palestinians continue to be denied.
01:26The UNấced
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