Photos: Millions of Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakba
Nakba commemorations serve as remembrance and a call for justice, self-determination and the right to return.

Nakba commemorations serve as remembrance and a call for justice, self-determination and the right to return.



![Yemeni negotiators and other officials disembark from a plane flying under the banner of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) upon arrival at Yemen's Aden International Airport on April 14, 2023 during a previous prisoner exchange with the Houthi group [File: Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFPB]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AFP__20230414__33D74JY__v5__HighRes__TopshotYemenConflictPrisoners-1778771267.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)




Five countries are boycotting the 70th edition of Eurovision on May 16 in protest over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Israel advances legislation to try October 7 detainees in military courts, raising fears of show trials and executions.
A Gaza teenager orphaned by an Israeli attack finds refuge in football amid the decimation of Palestinian sports.
Israel continues to violate a ‘ceasefire’ agreed to in October with hundreds more killed across the Strip.

A Palestinian family in Jenin says Israeli settlers forced them to exhume their father hours after his funeral.
UN condemns confrontation in occupied West Bank as ‘appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians’.
In Damascus, Lebanese prime minister and Syrian president discuss issues including security, transport and energy.
Niger’s military government has banned dozens of local and foreign reporters since seizing power in 2023.

Palestinians ran alongside the separation wall today, a structure that cuts them off from their land and their families.
Resistant and resilient, the Masallam family fight to stay on their land in Palestine’s occupied West Bank.