83-year-old Palestinian woman: 'We lived through a new Nakba' in Jenin

JENIN — At 83, Rahma Hammad has been displaced twice. The first time was during the 1948 Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes. Decades later, she says it happened again. "We did not expect this to happen to us a second time. We thought the Nakba had ended, but we lived through a new Nakba," Hammad told Anadolu, referring to the recent Israeli military operation in Jenin. The term Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, describes the mass displacement of Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948. Hammad says the recent violence in the occupied West Bank forced her family to flee once more. She now faces the loss of her home and belongings for the second time in her life. Her story highlights the cycle of displacement that continues to affect Palestinian families.