For many Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area, seeing the rise in civilian deaths from the war in Gaza is deeply personal, and especially difficult as Wednesday marks the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, which forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee from their homes in what they call Nakba, meaning 'catastrophe' in...
For many Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area, seeing the rise in civilian deaths from the war in Gaza is deeply personal, and especially difficult as Wednesday marks the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, which forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee from their homes in what they call Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic.
"We haven't had time to fully grieve, because we're still kind of trying to explain to people what's going on and trying to spread awareness and trying to get it to stop. Because as we're grieving, more and more things continue to happen," Zayna said. "I think the youngest person in our family was four months old, a baby." Zayna's mother, Dr. Manal Elkarra, says their relatives in Gaza are now refugees."They were all forced to flee.
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