Author: Moritz Behrendtz

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During the Nakba, hundreds of thousands left their homes (photo: public domain)

The Palestinian Nakba of 1948

An Objective Delineation of Events

The Swiss journalist Marlène Schnieper describes how Palestinian society is still affected by the experience of flight and expulsion it went through in 1948. In her book on the Nakba she links the broader history with the life stories of individual Palestinians – both prominent and unknown. By Moritz BehrendtMore

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Most Recent Photo Essay

Forced removals: it's estimated that 8,000 refugees live in Bihac. The camps are overcrowded and every day there is talk of burglaries. There was a stabbing in front of the kindergarten. Next to Camp Bira, there were about 500 people not registered with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). In mid-June police picked them up and drove them to a site called Vucjak

The inhumanity of Bosniaʹs Vucjak refugee camp

Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them