Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass uprooting and say today’s catastrophe is worse

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip: Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced to flee when he was an infant in 1948. The village, Al-Joura, was demolished by the Israeli military at the time. It has since vanished under neighborhoods of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and the grounds of a national park. The neighborhood where Abu Hamam’s family ended up — and where he spent most of his life — now lies also largely in ruins.

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