Nakba a Time of Displacement Sorrow

Some 30 Palestinian born Czechs stand behind the word Palestinian overlaid with candles on 15 May 2008 on the Old Town Square, in Prague, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the al-Nakba the 'Day of the Catastrophe.'

Nakba refers to the day, 15 May 1948, when the state of Israel came into being, which led to the displacement of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians, along with numerous destructions of homes and whole villages.

The Nakba is the sorrow of becoming a refugee and forced into the Palestinian Diaspora.

The majority of these families are homeless or displaced, to this very day and was last estimated to range into over 4 million people.