Ethnic cleansing as real as it was 70 years ago

The Palestine state must be recognised as Israel was and the illegal occupation must end without delay — 70 years of Nakba is enough, writes Ahmad Abdelrazek, Ambassador Ahmad Abdelrazek, Mission of the State of Palestine to Ireland.

Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of over 800,000 Palestinians from their lands known as “Nakba”, the Arabic word for catastrophe.