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I Survived Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in 1948. I Fear My Family Might Not Survive Its Genocide in Gaza

By Mutlaq Mahmoud Abu Elkhair

Seventy-six years ago this week, I was forced to flee my home village in Palestine during the establishment of the state of Israel, taking refuge in Gaza, never to return. Now, at 96-years-old, I and hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians who have been driven from their homes by Israel in recent months face the possibility of being expelled from Gaza altogether as a full-scale invasion of the…