Juraidah Ahmad

This movie should get 9.9 rating. In 1948, the Zionist forces took over Palestine, resulting in genocide and displacement of countless Palestinian families. (Including my grand parents, my father, and my aunts). My grand mother was killed by a grenade that hit the courtyard of their house while she was breastfeeding my father. My father luckily survived after my grandmother threw herself on the grenade before it exploded and it took her life. This event occurred when Zionist settlers declared the establishment of a new state in what was until then part of British-mandated Palestine. The newly formed state became known as Israel and its founding marked the beginning of a long and painful conflict between Zionists and the indigenous people of Palestine. Many Palestinians were forced to leave their homes at gunpoint by Israeli forces. In some cases, villagers were rounded up and herded into refugee camps on foot. Along with mass evacuations came violence; raids on villages often resulted in mass killings, torture, rape and looting by the Israeli military. Hundreds of whole villages were completely destroyed, leaving thousands without shelter or sustenance. These events are known as the Nakba (catastrophe) by Palestinians who refer to it as a formative moment in their history and continue to commemorate it each year on May 15th. The displacement of Palestinians resulted not only from direct military force but also from other policies enacted by the Israeli government such as population transfer laws which allowed for Zionist immigrants to take over Palestinian homes and lands without compensation or permission from owners. This policy was first implemented during Operation Dani in 1948-49 where more than 200 Palestinian villages were destroyed or depopulated through expulsions or massacres making room for illegal Jewish settlements instead. These atrocities led to around three-quarters of a million Palestinians becoming refugees fleeing their homeland while many others remained internally displaced within Israel itself. Those who had escaped were scattered across neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt where they established refugee camps often living in squalor conditions due to lack of resources or basic necessities like food, water or shelter provided by host governments who refused them citizenship rights as they did not want them settling permanently within their borders. Until today, this mass displacement has been one of the most devastating human tragedies resulting from this conflict and continues to be an ongoing issue with no end in sight . Over seven decades have passed since this dark chapter yet Palestinians have still been unable to return home due to ongoing political tensions between Israelis and Palestinians which has led both sides further apart instead of bringing them closer together towards peace And now history is repeating its self with another genocide.