The Nakba is also Hope: Khan Younis Community Commemorates the Nakba with Art, Bread and Coffee (PHOTOS)

By Palestine Chronicle Employees

For Palestinians, the catastrophic destruction of the Palestinian homeland, often known as the Nakba, just isn’t merely about mourning what has been misplaced, and the tragedy that has befallen the Palestinian individuals ever since. 

It’s also a celebration of life, of tradition, of the previous and the current, and a powerful message of a rooted nation with a powerful sense of peoplehood to a younger era that has grown up stateless or in exile. 

This Palestinian group within the southern Gaza Strip metropolis of Khan Yunis has performed simply that. The elders of the group led an occasion that exhibited the younger skills of the realm, their paintings, poetry and embroidery. 

And since meals performs a vital function in sustaining Palestinian tradition and making it accessible to everybody, freshly made Palestinian bread, often known as shrak, was shared among the many group, together with freshly brewed espresso, performed in response to Palestinian Bedouin traditions. 

Although Could 15, 1948, serves because the marker of the Palestinian Nakba for the final 75 years, the tragedy has been internalized, the truth is, owned, by a number of generations of Palestinians to serve greater than only a unhappy reminiscence of loss, loss of life, and exile. 

The Nakba is now the muse for a brand new starting, one in all redemption, resistance, unity, and hope.

(Textual content by Ramzy Baroud. All Pictures: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)