A Key Memorial to the Al-Nakba

A Palestinian worker puts the final touches to a huge 10-metre long iron key on 3 May 2008, which was ordered by refugee institutions, at Aida refugee camp near the West Bank town of Bethlehem as a memorial of 60 years since what Palestinians refer to as 'Al-Nakba' (the catastrophe).

The key will join a giant 12-metre lock which together will stand as a symbol of the Palestinian refugee's Right of Return following the displacement of populations that occurred during war time on 15 May 1948, an event which the Palestinians term as Al-Nakba.

The refugee institutions also hope that the key may make it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest key.