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This year marks the 77<\/span>th<\/span> anniversary of the <\/span>Nakba<\/span><\/a> (\u201ccatastrophe\u201d in Arabic), the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Nakba remains a deeply traumatic event in the Palestinian collective memory and continues to shape their struggle for justice and for their right to return to their homes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>UN Palestinian Rights Committee<\/span> will <\/span>commemorate<\/span> the anniversary at UNHQ, pursuant to GA resolution <\/span>A\/RES\/79\/82<\/span><\/a>. A Special Meeting will be organized on 15 May<\/strong>, in the ECOSOC Chamber, 10 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.<\/strong> (NY Time), in which the President of the General Assembly will give a keynote speech.<\/span> You can watch <\/span><\/a>be livestream here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Commemorations will continue with an exclusive screening of the documentary\u202f\u201c<\/span>From Ground Zero\u201d<\/span><\/i>. Created by 22 artists living under siege in the Gaza Strip, this powerful film offers a vital and deeply contextualized perspective beyond the brutal <\/span>media <\/span>live<\/span> stream <\/span>on Gaza<\/span>. Through bold uses of allegory and raw creative expression, the filmmakers bear witness to life under constant bombardment and forced starvation. Their testimonies reveal the fragments of a daily struggle not only to survive, but to do so with unyielding dignity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>This exclusive preview will take place <\/span>at 1<\/span><\/b>:15<\/span><\/b> p.m.<\/span><\/b> in the ECOSOC chamber at the UN Headquarters in New York. <\/span><\/p>\n The screening is open to valid UN Ground Pass holders (delegates, staff, UN accredited NGOs).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba (\u201ccatastrophe\u201d in Arabic), the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Nakba remains a deeply traumatic event in the Palestinian collective memory and continues to shape their struggle for justice and for their right to return to their homes.\u00a0\u00a0 The UN […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[1712],"region":[],"class_list":["post-306938","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-committee-meetings","cat_committee-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/306938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/306938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307359,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/306938\/revisions\/307359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306938"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=306938"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=306938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}