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Occupied Jerusalem – On the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian suffering is still renewed, and this time in a bloody context imposed by the continuous Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
The impact of this aggression was not limited to Gaza, but the Palestinians of the interior, the sons of the first Nakba, who found themselves again in the targeting circle, were limited, amid continuous attempts to blur their national identity and erase their historical novel.
The Israeli government has made its discriminatory policies through enacting new racist legislation and measures, which deepened the marginalization of the Palestinians at home, who originally suffer from chronic discrimination and neglect.
Exclusion
These policies included the dismissal of Arab teachers by allegedly supporting “terrorism”, withdrawing financing from Arab schools, and cutting social welfare allocations from the families of children convicted of security violations, as well as reducing the budgets allocated to the Arab towns, which expanded the development gap and cursed the exclusion.
At the same time, the crime crisis in Arab society has exacerbated, from the beginning of 2025 to May, 91 people were killed, including 10 by Israeli police, while in 2024, 221 people were killed, compared to 222 victims in 2023.
More than 300 people were also injured in violent crimes that included shooting, stinging and running out, and the Israeli police are accused of inaction and collusion with the crime gangs, which deepened the feeling of Arab citizens neglecting insecurity.
As for the housing crisis, it flavoring in a clear reflecting the policies of discrimination in the distribution of resources, and according to the Arab Center for Alternative Planning, the Palestinians of the Interior, who make up about 20% of the population, have only 3% of the lands within the green line, while the state and the “Jewish National Fund” control 97%.
The land reserves allocated to the Palestinians 48 have decreased by 50%, which exacerbated residential hardship, as 70 thousand Arab housing units face the risk of demolishing on the pretext of building without a license, while 70% of families do not have a building land, amid a need to provide 120 thousand housing units for young couples.
The stronger battle in the Negev is highlighting, as the authorities seek through the “Braver Law” to confiscate 800,000 dunums of the Negev Bedouins, and the demolition of 35 villages stolen recognition, to displace about 150 thousand people.
In the village of Al -Araqib, which was demolished for the 240th time, her sheikh, Sayyah Al -Toury, insists on staying despite all attempts to displace, confirming to Al -Jazeera Net that it is like other unrecognized villages, facing a continuous, continuous migration and a daily conflict to survive.
Systematic discrimination
Israeli policies do not stop when demolishing, but rather extending to systematic discrimination against about 1.9 million Palestinians living in Arab cities and towns within the Green Line, as they face increasing restrictions on public freedoms, the confiscation of lands, and besieging their towns with Jewish settlements, leading to targeting them with police bullets.
The head of the People’s Committee for the Defense of the Earth and Housing, Ahmed Melhem, believes that the current stage is very dangerous, and tells Al -Jazeera Net that since the war on Gaza began on the pace of political arrests and prosecutions.
He added to Al -Jazeera Net, “Dozens were arrested administratively only because of solidarity leaflets or raising the flag of Palestine. Today, even the digital expression is targeted, and the national discourse is treated as a crime, in light of a systematic policy to silence and marginalize voices,” he told Al -Jazeera Net.
This escalation reflects a clear attempt to remove the national identity from the Palestinians of the interior, and to criminalize their political and cultural participation.
Activist Reem Khatib – from the town of Qalansuwa – confirms that the Nakba is not just a memory, but a daily reality that the Palestinians live. “Our calamity continues as long as our homes are threatened with demolition, and our children are deprived of the most basic rights, and our youth are victims of violence. The only difference is that the world no longer pays attention to what is happening,” she says to Al -Jazeera Net.
She adds that the 77th anniversary reminds them that what started in 1948 was not ended, but rather developed into more complicated forms of repression and exclusion, without succeeding in breaking the Palestinian will, which is reflected in the protest stops, the steadfastness of the prisoners and the dreams of the Negev children.
Arab students at Tel Aviv University commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba pic.twitter.com/wuxkuf90bw
Al -Jazeera channel (@AjArabic) May 15, 2025
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In this context, the Democratic Student Assembly (Jafra) issued a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the Nakba, in which the broad student movement lived, appreciating “efforts to unite the classes and enhance joint work under the critical stage.”
The statement – which Al -Jazeera Net received a copy of – confirmed that student activities reflect students’ adherence to their national identity despite the repression, considering that the university is still an arena for struggle and political awareness.
He stressed the need to continue to commemorate the Nakba within the Israeli universities, “despite the muzzling of mouths and pursuing political activity,” stressing his commitment to turning the university into a free space that expresses the struggle of Palestinian students.
Since the seventh of October 2023, the Arab community at home has witnessed an unprecedented escalation in arrests, as nearly 2000 cases were recorded, including dozens of administrative arrests against young men, claiming “prejudice to the security of the state.”
According to human rights data, about 30 young Palestinians of the interior are sitting in administrative detention without trial, most of them for periods of up to 6 months, which reflects the expansion of the use of this exceptional procedure to suppress freedoms.
The director of the “Adalah Center”, lawyer Hassan Jabarin, notes that this phenomenon “which was rare” has become alarming. And he confirms that the Palestinians are facing a campaign of repression of freedom of expression, led by extremist governmental and German bodies, aimed at even peaceful expression on social media.
The Israeli Public Prosecution directed the participants in the protests, such as supporting “terrorism” or incitement, although it falls within the legitimate right to express human opinion and solidarity with the Gaza Strip.
“On the anniversary of the Nakba, questions about identity, truth, and justice are renewed. Between the demolition of homes and how much mouths, the Palestinian will remain alive, beating in everyone who insists on staying in the face of forgetfulness, marginalization and uprootation.”