The forever catastrophe: Displaced Palestinians from North Gaza City carry their belongings and head to the city center after the Israeli military issued warnings to evacuate homes in North Gaza. — Saher Alghorra/The New York Times
THE night was warm and lovely as the Abu Samra family gathered outside their home in the northern Gaza Strip in September 2023, the smell of mint from the garden filling the air.
As always, the family patriarch recounted how, as a 10-year-old in 1948, he was forced from his village in what is now Israel, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced in what they call the Nakba – “the catastrophe.”
