The causes and explanations of the exodus of Palestinian Arabs that arose during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War are a matter of great controversy between historians, journalists and commentators of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
The play Suhmata, which he co-wrote with Edward Mast about the destruction of a Palestinian village of the same name in 1948 during the nakba, debuted in Seattle in 1996 and has since been performed in various theaters in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
Karmi and his family were forced to flee in the 1948 Nakba.
Ibrahim Fawal (born 1933) is a Palestinian-American academic, former professor, and author of the historical novel On the Hills of God, about the experiences of a young Palestinian man during the Nakba, or "catastrophe" of 1948.
His paintings focused on describing the daily life of the Palestinian people in his country before the Nakba.
During the 1948 Palestine War, around 85% (720,000 people) of the Palestinian Arab population of what has become Israel left their homes, either driven by force, by fear, or by instruction of Arab leadership.
Her mother and her grandparents were relocated to Iraq at around 60 years ago, as a result of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, after meeting her father; Alshaibi and her siblings and parents left Basra in 1981.
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Ahmed Yousef, a senior adviser to Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, warned that "The next time there is a crisis in the Gaza Strip, Israel will have to face half a million Palestinians who will march toward Erez," a border crossing with Israel, and on to towns left during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
Zochrot, an Israeli-Jewish organization that aims to raise awareness of the Nakba has produced a booklet on Ayn Ghazal and organized tours to the site of the destroyed village.
In 1949, UNWRA established a refugee camp in the area, 11 kilometers from Jerusalem, for Palestinians refugees from Lydda, Ramle and Jerusalem victims of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
As Minister of Education, she approved a history textbook for Arab children, wherein Israel's War of Independence is described as the nakba – the disaster.