{"id":51381,"date":"2016-05-15T00:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=51381"},"modified":"2016-05-15T00:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T21:22:01","slug":"68-years-al-nakba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2016\/05\/68-years-al-nakba\/","title":{"rendered":"68 years of Al Nakba"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cPeople who live here originally came from Haifa, Akka, Yaffa and the villages. In 1948, they were forced out of their own homes and the land by the Israelis.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When people first came to this area, UNRWA gave them tents to live in, assuming their expulsion from the land would be temporary\u2014maybe one or two months before they could return to their homes.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But things took a long time. So people put brick over brick, stone over stone, something to avoid the rain and the sun. It\u2019s been sixty-eight years since then.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/em>\u2013 Jenin refugee camp resident<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2016\u00a0marks the 68th anniversary of the Nakba, the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands\u00a0in 1948.<\/p>\n

The Nakba is more than a historical event. The Nakba is ongoing. It is a continuous process of denied right of return for the refugees, of discrimination against\u00a0Palestinians\u00a0living inside Israel\/’48, of violations of the most basic rights of the population in the West Bank, of strangling siege and frequent attacks against the population in\u00a0Gaza, of ever-expanding settlements on Palestinian lands and theft of its natural resources. It is an ongoing, escalating process of apartheid, settler colonialism and military rule.<\/p>\n

This year, The Freedom Theatre commemorates Al Nakba through a series of performances, in occupied Palestine and in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, of our play Return to Palestine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Performances<\/strong>:<\/div>\n
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May 14, Tulkarem refugee camp
\nMay 15, Jenin refugee camp
\nMay 15, Arrabee village
\nMay 18, Nablus and Balata refugee camp
\nMay 21, Ramallah
\nMay 28\u00a0Hetten refugee camp, Jordan
\nMay 29\u00a0Hetten refugee camp, Jordan<\/p>\n

For more details, email us<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Return to Palestine\u2019 is part of the project \u2018Interactive theatre as a tool for social change\u2019 implemented by The Freedom Theatre in partnership with Ashtar for Theatre Production and Training.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The performances of \u2018Return to Palestine\u2019 are supported by the Swedish Postcode Lottery.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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