(15 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon, Portugal – 15 May 2024
1. Pan of vigil
2. Pull focus of candles
3. Close of ring with Arabic wording
4. Pull focus from speaker to people attending
5. Wide of balloons representing villages affected during Nakba
6. Close of sign
7. Various of people attending
8. Palestinian flag being waved
9. Wide of attendees sitting in front of signs laid out on grass
10. Mid of Dima Abu Sbeitan
11. Close of purse with Palestine written on it
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dima Abu Sbeitan 39-year-old Palestinian artist living in Lisbon:
"This day is the day still affecting me until today, to be separated from my family. To try to cut my roots, to detach me from a land that my ancestors lived in, this day is a day that is not ending, it doesn’t end it didnt end since 1948, until today its still going, not one day we have seen peace or one day we have seen our liberation."
13. Close of necklace representing Palestine
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dima Abu Sbeitan 39-year-old Palestinian artist living in Lisbon:
"We have not been broken since October, we are still doing vigils every Wednesday, in Porto were we are doing vigils every day, still protesting every weekend, we are still boycotting and we will boycott more and more people are joining the cause globally, so peace does not come on a silver platter. Whoever says ‘I want peace’, well we need to work for peace. Everybody needs to work for peace. And freedom is not given, History has proven this, we have to fight for freedom."
15. Various of vigil
16. Band playing and singing traditional Portuguese music Fado to pay tribute to Palestinians forced to leave their land
STORYLINE:
Around one hundred people gathered in Lisbon for a candlelight vigil in a sign of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Around the world, Palestinians are marking 76 years of their mass expulsion from what is today Israel.
The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what today is Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948.
For 39-year-old Dima Abu Sbeitan, a Palestinian artist living in Portugal, the day brings suffering.
"This day is the day still affecting me until today, to be separated from my family. To try to cut my roots, to detach me from a land that my ancestors lived in, this day is a day that is not ending, it doesn’t end it didn’t end since 1948," She said.
Israel has been pressing its military operations in Rafah, a city along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, and in northern Gaza, where Hamas has regrouped.
Around 600,000 Palestinians have been driven out of Rafah since the beginning of last week, a U.N. spokesperson said Wednesday. In northern Gaza, Israeli evacuation orders have displaced at least 100,000 people so far.
Some 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their homes since the start of the war, with many relocating multiple times.
No food has entered the two main border crossings in southern Gaza for more than a week.
Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the U.N, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north of the territory.
Israel has portrayed Rafah as the last Hamas stronghold, brushing off warnings from the United States and other allies that any major operation there would be catastrophic for civilians.
Seven months of the war have killed more than 35,000 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to local health officials.
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