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Video: Nakba remembered amid Gaza suffering Al Jazeera, May 16, 2009
Palestinians have marked the occasion of the 1948 "catastrophe", or Nakba, when they fled their homes in the face of the establishment of Israel in 1948. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Gaza, where this year's commemorations have been overshadowed by the more recent destruction wrought by Israel's war on the tiny coastal territory.
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