[news] Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned Israeli Arab villages

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Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned Israeli Arab villages By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent The Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe") Day, which commemorates the establishment of Israel in 1948, was marked Thursday by mass pilgrimages to abandoned Palestinian villages. In the morning, families of internally displaced Palestinians visited the sites of the villages that they left or from which they were expelled in 1948. In the afternoon, 5,000 people held a rally at the site of Khirbet Husha and Khirbet Ksair near Kibbutz Usha in the Galilee.

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