Knesset plans lobby for return of Palestinians to their villages - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Aug 19, 2016

Arabs stand in Iqrit, northern Israel, May 10, 2008, as part of an annual pilgrimage to a village whose residents were ordered out by Jewish fighters during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The villagers, Arab citizens of Israel, have long demanded a right to return to the site to live. The visit coincided with Palestinian commemorations of the 1948 ?Nakba? or ?Catastrophe?, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes in what is now Israel. Picture taken May 10, 2008. REUTER — A Palestinian man stands in the ruined village of Iqrit during an annual pilgrimage to the village, whose residents were ordered out by the Israeli army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, northern Israel, May 10, 2008. — REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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