The Nakba of the Palestinian People

 The Second Episode

The Palestinian people inherited the results of the political Nakba that afflicted them, their cause, and their homeland in 1948. They were scattered as a people who lost stability on their land, and the geography of their homeland was torn apart. They became prisoners of need, the harshness of life, and the hardship of living. The doors of employment in Arab Gulf countries were opened to them for two reasons: first, because they possessed qualified professional cadres, and second, by an American-European decision, aimed at integrating them into the demands of life away from Palestine. They also lost their identity, collective administration, and unified national leadership, with the exception of Jordan, which provided them with dignity and national partnership, before the birth of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its establishment by respected leading figures with representative status, officially owning them. The organization then became the unified political expression for the administration of the Palestinian national people.

In the Battle of Karameh, the Jordanian Arab Army achieved a tangible victory on March 21, 1968, over the forces of the Israeli colony. The Palestinian resistance achieved a political gain as a result, despite its modest capabilities at that time. However, its partnership with the Jordanian Arab Army, and the fall of Palestinian martyrs alongside their brethren from the Jordanian Arab Army, recorded a state of Palestinian presence with Jordanian support and backing, expressed by the late King Hussein, who attended the memorial service for the martyrs in Zahran Cinema in central Amman, without prior official arrangement, and delivered his famous speech saying: He is "the first fedayeen for Palestine."

The birth of the Palestine Liberation Organization on 28/5/1964, the launch of the Fatah movement on 1/1/1965, and the Battle of Karameh on 21/3/1968, formed the groundwork and prelude for the subsequent cumulative Palestinian achievements, culminating in the First Palestinian Intifada in 1987, which led to Israeli recognition by the government of Yitzhak Rabin of three key points:

1- The Palestinian people, 2- The Palestine Liberation Organization, 3- The political rights of Palestinians. Consequently, a gradual withdrawal from Palestinian cities took place, starting with Gaza and Jericho first, and the return of approximately half a million Palestinians to their homeland between 1994-1999, and the birth of the National Authority within Palestine, as a prelude to the birth of an independent state. More importantly, the Palestinian cause, struggle, and project were transferred from exile to the homeland due to the factors of the First Intifada and the Oslo Accords. The struggle then took place on Palestinian land, with Palestinian tools, in confrontation with the enemy of the Palestinian people, who occupies their land, confiscates their rights, and violates their dignity.

Before the end of 2000, in December, the Second Intifada erupted, forcing Sharon's government to dismantle settlements, remove occupation army bases, and withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

On October 7, 2023, the Hamas movement carried out an unprecedented struggle operation in its size and results, pushing the occupation army to invade and reoccupy the Gaza Strip. In return, the Palestinian people paid heavy prices in confronting and resisting the occupation forces, as a result of the most violent Israeli attack, and its commission of crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the complete destruction of the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip.