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Ethnic cleansing in Palestine
The eviction of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948, the Nakba, is a crime that Israel and the world have yet to atone for.
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Published On 15 May 2023
History Illustrated is a weekly series of insightful perspectives that puts news events and current affairs into historical context using graphics generated with artificial intelligence.
![What else could anyone possibly call all the massacres, razed homes and theft of land but a catastrophe?](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/02-1684138595.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![That catastrophe—the Nakba—occurred 75 years ago, when Zionist militias drove 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, an act many describe today as ethnic cleansing.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/03-1684138603.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![In late 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, with just 33 votes in favour.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/04-1684138610.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![Arabs rejected the UN’s partition plan as an obvious violation of Palestinian rights, and warned of the coming devastation. (It didn’t take long for the killing to start.)](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/05-1684138617.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![On March 10, 1948, the Zionist Haganah paramilitary adopted Plan Dalet, which laid out a strategy to ethnically cleanse Palestine.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/06-1684138627.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![A month later, in the village of Deir Yassin, Zionists militias killed more than 100 men, women and children—one of several massacres that served to terrorise Palestinians.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/07-1684138635.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the creation of the state of Israel, which led to the first Arab-Israeli war—and a massive refugee crisis.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/08-1684138642.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![Zionist forces would go on to capture 78% of Palestine, with the rest divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/09-1684138649.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)
![Today, the Nakba continues with forced evictions and near-daily killings of Palestinians, committed by what many see as an apartheid state, all while the rest of the world stands by and watches.](/https/www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/10-1684138656.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&quality=80)