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Nakba.

The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.

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name/ˈnɑːkbə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈnɑkbə/General-American
  1. The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Arabic النَّكْبَة (an-nakba, “the catastrophe, the disaster”), from نَكَبَ (nakaba, “to make miserable”).

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