Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: Nakba

Synonyms:

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Usage examples:

“Christ’s birthplace, Bethlehem (Palestinian city in the West Bank), is experiencing unprecedented sadness,” President Abbas said, noting that the current Israeli aggression reminds him of the 1948 Nakba.

Source: https://www.vocfm.co.za/israeli-bombing-is-indiscriminate-targets-both-muslims-and-christians-says-palestinian-president/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-bombing-is-indiscriminate-targets-both-muslims-and-christians-says-palestinian-pre

Enjoy Nakba, Rashida, and may you celebrate many more for years to come.

Source: https://spectator.org/dear-rashida-tlaib-there-never-was-an-arab-palestine/

For some, it is reminiscent of the Nakba, or catastrophe, that unfolded amid the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when villages were taken over by Israelis and renamed as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled from their lands.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-11-13/la-fg-israeli-settlers-violence

Hammad’s spans generations of the conflict, from the 1948 Nakba to the 1993 Oslo Accords to present-day.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/palestine-hamlet-ghosts-exhort-next-generation-author-isabella-hammad-9045943/

In 1948, Israel carried out the Nakba (or “catastrophe”), a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians from their land in order to create the state of Israel.

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/the-forcible-transfer-of-85-of-palestinians-in-gaza-is-a-crime-against-humanity/

Is Israel preparing another Nakba for Gaza?

Source: https://www.972mag.com/israel-war-cabinet-gaza-failures/

Mr. Kallner on Oct. 8. “Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join!” he added.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/world/middleeast/israel-egypt-gaza.html

Mr. Kallner on Oct. 8. “Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join!” he added.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/world/middleeast/israel-egypt-gaza.html

Palestinians have been refugees in their land since the Nakba in 1948 when settlers expelled 700,000 of them to establish the Israeli state.”

Source: https://the-peak.ca/2023/11/independent-jewish-voices-group-calls-on-minister-of-energy-to-support-ceasefire-in-gaza/

The exodus has also been likened to the historical “Nakba” – meaning catastrophe in Arabic – by a teenage girl quoted by CNN.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war-crimes-unhrc-b2444291.html

They again lobbied hard 75 years later to prevent the Nakba commemoration, but they lost – badly.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/believe-it-or-not-justice-will-prevail-in-palestine/

They refer to Israel’s establishment as the Nakba, or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the war surrounding Israel’s establishment as a state.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/world/middleeast/israel-memorial-day-independence-day.html

Tlaib’s event on Wednesday, called “Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People,” featured the Arabic word for “catastrophe” that Palestinians use to describe the dispersion.

Source: https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2023/05/19/news/after-mccarthy-cancels-nakba-event-tlaib-hosts-it-with-help-from-sanders/18267.html

Whoever thought that the grandchildren of exiled refugees would forget the Nakba is a fool who doesn’t understand the human psyche, least of all that of Palestinians.

Source: https://www.972mag.com/nakba-haifa-turan-wadi-saleeb/

With the unbelievable heartbreak that is now being suffered on all sides, it serves no one to put forward falsehoods, especially about the author of a novel about the Nakba that is so historically true.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-10-16/adania-shinli-book-prize-cancellation

“Zionist entity’s occupying power continues its occupation and its aggression against the Palestinian people and continues to deny this Nakba and rejects international resolutions regarding the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland.”

Source: https://www.kuwaittimes.com/palestinians-mark-75-years-since-catastrophe-in-occupied-west-bank/