Forever refugees — from the Nakba to Shatila | by Farah-Silvana Kanaan | May, 2023 | Medium
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Today marks 75 years since the Nakba — catastrophe in Arabic — began. Thousands of Palestinians were massacred by Zionist militias, hundreds of their villages were razed to the ground and about 750,000 of them were forced to flee their homeland. In the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut, three generations of women from the same family share how it feels to live so close yet so far from their homeland.