In a bid to preserve a record of what the Palestinians call the ‘Nakba’, or ‘catastrophe’ - their uprooting in the war over Israel’s creation in 1948 - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency has digitised 525,000 photos in the agency’s archive. As Palestinians mark the Nakba’s 66th anniversary on Thursday, the photos tell the story of the refugee crisis that has transitioned from temporary to seemingly permanent.
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In this photo taken in 1952, refugees walk through Nahr el-Bared, a refugee camp in Lebanon which was one of the first camps established as part of emergency measures to shelter Palestine refugees of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948. S Madver/AP Photo/ UNRWA Photo Archives -
Palestine refugees flee across over the Jordan river on the damaged Allenby Bridge during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives -
Palestinian refugees stand outside their tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip in 1948. AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives -
This picture taken in 1968 shows Palestinian refugees arriving in east Jordan in a continuing exodus of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The partially obscured signboard reads ‘Jericho 8 km, Jerslm (Jerusalem) 43 km’. AP Photo/G.Nehmeh, UNRWA Photo Archives -
In this 1971 photo from the UNRWA archive, Palestinian refugees pose for a picture in the New Amman refugee camp in Eastern Jordan. AP Photo/G.Nehmeh, UNRWA Photo Archives
In pictures: commemorating the Nakba’s 66th anniversary
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