The Palestinian people marked the 78th anniversary of Al Nakba (The Catastrophe) on May 15 amid the escalating genocidal war of the US-Israel. Al Nakba was the bloody expulsion from Palestine in 1948 by the Zionist forces to establish the state of “Israel” backed by the British empire.

The Palestinian people regard the ongoing genocide as “a new and more brutal phase of Al Nakba.” As in the past, it is marked by massive massacres, deliberate starvation, the destruction of homes and infrastructure, and forced expulsions intended to exterminate the Palestinian people.

Since October 2023, the Zionists have pulverized all of Gaza with bullets and bombs made and supplied by the US. Official tallies record 75,000 directly killed, and hundreds of thousands more who died indirectly from hunger, disease, buried in collapsed buildings, and those not recovered. The Zionists have persisted in their attacks even after agreeing to a ceasefire on October 2025.

The Zionist state drew a “yellow line” inside Gaza to set a new land seizure. It established 13 new military detachments to bring 53–58% of the territory under its control. It seized 50–60% of farmlands while confining Palestinians to cramped evacuation centers far from productive lands and their livelihoods.

Along with the genocide in Gaza, Israel is gradually occupying the entire West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Palestinians suffer daily harassment, surveillance, and evictions. Over 700,000 Zionist settlers are living in more than 250 illegal settlements inside those areas by the end of 2025.

They will persist

Defying the occupation’s cruelty and terror, the Palestinian people stand resolutely to remain in their country, and to demand the right of all the displaced to return and to reclaim lands and territories taken from them. Bearing more than a century of revolutions and uprisings, they will not allow another catastrophe, or “Al Nakba 2.0.”.

The 2023 Al Aqsa Flood armed uprising proved anew the justness of the Palestinian struggle. Their righteous resistance is again at the center of international institutions. In support, millions poured into the streets across Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. The world recognized the struggle as a fight for freedom, justice, dignity, and humanity—not merely a border dispute, and certainly not related to Israel’s “self-defense.”

Most importantly, it exposed the horrific crimes of Zionist Israel, long considered “normal” even by many Arab states. The illusion of Israel as the “only democracy” in the Middle East collapsed, and has been exposed as modern “Nazism,” loathed worldwide. The scale and gravity of its war crimes and crimes against humanity were recognized at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

US driven expansion

The Zionists are seizing other parts of the Middle East beyond Palestine under the Greater Israel campaign. It mainly aims to encompass rich territories and routes from Egypt’s Nile River to Iraq’s Euphrates River.

It began laying a “yellow line” in Lebanon extending 10 kilometers into the southern part after its relentless bombing of the area since March. Israel has illegally occupied the Golan Heights, Syria since 1967. Despite United Nations resolutions ordering the return of the territory, it continues building illegal communities and industries in water-rich, fertile areas.

US imperialism is behind these aggressions, using billions of dollars in military funds and weapons to maintain control over the Middle East. The territories Israel occupies serve as a major strategic military base to put pressure on Arab countries and control natural resources, particularly oil and trade routes.