June 5, 1970 - "Our peasants and our workers with these rifles will know how to turn defeat into victory," said George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on the anniversary of the Naksa in 1970.
June 5 marks the anniversary of the 1967 Naksa, the second large-scale expulsion of Palestinians, following the 1948 Nakba.
At least 400,000 Palestinians were displaced after Israeli forces occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. As in the Nakba, Israeli forces weaponized attacks on civilians, massacres, destruction, and looting to enforce displacement and dispossession — displacing more than a third of the Palestinian population from the remainder of historic Palestine, and deliberately altering the territory's character, status, and demographic composition.
The Naksa — meaning "setback" in Arabic — also marked the Arab defeat in six days following Israeli aggression against Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian forces, and the subsequent occupation of Syria's Golan Heights and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
For analysts, the Naksa is not an isolated event but a phase of the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip — part of a broader Israeli effort to expand and consolidate its settler-colonial entity over historic Palestine and beyond. [video]
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