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1948 The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit.

'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement, terrorist acts by jewish militias, and massacres of entire towns by jewish zionist in order to dispossess non-jews of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations.

The term is used to describe the events of the 1948 Palestine war in Mandatory Palestine as well as the ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians by Israel