Today, Monday, May 15, marks the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, which Palestinians commemorate on this day every year.

During the Nakba, Zionist gangs took control of 78% of the area of historical Palestine (27,000 square kilometers) and declared the establishment of the state of "Israel".

During the Nakba, the gangs occupied 774 Palestinian villages and cities, and 531 of them were completely destroyed and their cultural and historical landmarks obliterated, and the rest were subjected to the occupation entity and its laws.

The Nakba is the largest ethnic cleansing operation witnessed in the twentieth century, where the occupation forcibly displaced about 950 thousand Palestinians from their villages and cities by force of arms and threats to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and neighboring Arab countries, out of one million and 400 thousand Palestinians who lived in historic Palestine in 1948, and Jews were replaced in their place.

According to UNRWA records, the number of Palestinian refugee camps reached 58 official camps affiliated to the international relief agency, distributed in 10 camps in Jordan, 9 camps in Syria, 12 camps in Lebanon, 19 camps in the West Bank, and 8 camps in the Gaza Strip.

The number of Palestinians at the end of 2019, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, was about 13 million, including about 5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ( 43% of them are refugees according to the general census of Population, Housing and establishments 2017), about one million and 597 thousand Palestinians living in the territories occupied in 1948, while the number of Palestinians in Arab countries was about 6 million, and in foreign countries about 727 thousand.

For the first time since 1948, the United Nations decided to commemorate the Nakba of the Palestinian people with an official event on Monday at the headquarters of the international body in New York City.