Hundreds march in New York to commemorate 78th anniversary of Nakba

Hundreds march in New York to commemorate 78th anniversary of Nakba Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Manhattan in New York on Friday to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. Each year, on 15 May, millions mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948. “The Nakba never ended, but neither has the Palestinian struggle for freedom.