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May 15, 2017

70 Years of Occupation & Forced Displacement in Palestine

Oakland, CA — 2017 marks 70 years since the Nakba, the Catastrophe, which resulted in the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land and homes; 50 years since the Six-Day War and Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; and 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which laid the foundation for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Today, most of the world’s 12.1 million Palestinians are still displaced or remain refugees.