Beit Daras and Gaza: An intergenerational tale of struggle against erasure | Opinions

On this day 76 years ago, my ancestral village Beit Daras, located in the northern Gaza district of Palestine, then under the British mandate, was attacked by Jewish militias. The Nakba, or the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine, had already begun. The systematic torment, brutalisation and killing of Palestinians by Zionist militias, aimed at establishing a Jewish ethno-state in historical Palestine, would result in the expulsion of at least 750,000 Palestinians.
As I watch the genocide unfold in Gaza today, I cannot help but reflect on the fate of my village and my ancestors. Just as…