 May 15th is the anniversary of the Nakba, which means catastrophic or disaster. The day marks the forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during the formation of Israel in 1948. In the days preceding May 15th, 1948, Israeli militants attacked several villages and towns in historic Palestine. Over 150,000 Palestinians are believed to have been killed and over 800,000 went into exile. According to some estimates, the Israeli militias were responsible for the ethnic cleansing of more than 400 Palestinian villages and towns in few days' time, causing one of the largest and perhaps the longest refugee crisis in human history. The Palestinian partition in 1947 gave Jews, who were 32% of the total population of historic Palestine, 55% of the entire territory. This was opposed by the Palestinians. Zionist militias like Haganah plotted to kill and force Palestinians to leave their villages and towns. These militias were led by future leaders of Israel, including Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon and Yitzhak Rabin. Most of the Palestinians who were forced to flee moved to refugee camps in the nearby cities. However, Israeli militia groups used the war declared by the neighboring Arab countries in 1948 to force the refugees out of the camps. Most of the Palestinian refugees eventually ended up in East Jerusalem or Gaza, which were controlled by Jordan and Egypt at the time of the war. A large number were forced to move to the neighboring Lebanon in the north. The third wave of killing and displacement took place in 1967, when these refugees were forced to go to Jordan and other parts of the Arab world. Today, more than 5 million Palestinians are forced to live in complete misery in various refugee camps across the Middle East. Meanwhile, Israel continues to displace more Palestinians from their existing villages and towns in the occupied territories of West Bank and East Jerusalem. To this day, Palestinians continued to fight for the right to return. In 2018, the Great March of the Return began in Gaza. One of the major demands was the right to return of the refugees and their descendants. Israel responded with horrific violence, killing hundreds. Nonetheless, Palestinians marched to the border fence week after week, demanding justice for those displaced by the Nagba. This year, despite the COVID-19 quarantine, Palestinians across the world will mark the Nagba. Despite Netanyahu's apartheid policies and Trump's fraudulent deal of the century, the resistance of the people of Palestine continues.