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Palestine's 75th "Day of Disaster" – Homeland Crying Parting Where is the promised land

author:Overseas network

Source: CCTV

Although it is now the 75th anniversary of the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Disaster Day, a large number of Palestinians are still scattered as refugees. They have left their homes and miss their homeland all day long. Jacob Odda, 83, is one of them.

Palestinian refugee Jacob Oda : Good morning, my home, good morning.

Early in the morning of the 8th, Odda set foot on his haunted homeland, the village of Lifta, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The graffiti on the wall also seems to tell Oda - "We will come back".

Palestine's 75th "Day of Disaster" – Homeland Crying Parting Where is the promised land

Palestinian refugee Jacob Oda : I spent my childhood here, I love my parents, sister, brother and neighbors, we used to go to the spring to play and play, each of us is like a fish.

Palestine's 75th "Day of Disaster" – Homeland Crying Parting Where is the promised land

Seventy-five years ago, on May 14, 1948, Israel proclaimed its statehood. The next day, the first Middle East war broke out, leaving nearly a million Palestinians deprived of their homes and the land on which they depended and became refugees. Among them was Oda who was only 8 years old at the time.

Palestinian refugee Jacob Odda: We were the masters of this place before, and then we became refugees.

Oda now lives in Shafit, about 7 kilometers from Lifta, and he often comes back when he's fine.

Palestine's 75th "Day of Disaster" – Homeland Crying Parting Where is the promised land

It is understood that there are currently about 6 million registered Palestinian refugees like Oda scattered in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about half of the registered refugees are still stateless, many of them living in camps. Israel insisted that Palestinian refugees had no right to return to Israel and feared that if Palestinian refugees returned to Israel in large numbers, the Arab population would exceed the Jewish population, thereby depriving Israel of its identity as a Jewish State.

It is difficult to return home, which is Oda unspeakable pain. But for him, returning to his homeland is a wish, but also a belief.

Palestine's 75th "Day of Disaster" – Homeland Crying Parting Where is the promised land

Palestinian refugee Jacob Odha: It was that house, the house of my grandparents and grandparents, where I saw light for the first time in my life, breathed air for the first time, and I will never forget it, and I must come back.

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