Saadet Gokce<\/p>\n
17 May 2026\u2022Update: 17 May 2026<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people on Sunday marched across Australia to mark the Nakba, commemorating the mass displacement of Palestinians.<\/p>\n
Rallies drew about 500 participants in Melbourne, 350 in Brisbane, 300 in Perth, 200 in Adelaide, and more than 100 in Hobart, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n
Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba\u2014Arabic for “catastrophe”\u2014commemorating the mass expulsion and displacement that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.<\/p>\n
Protesters chanted slogans, including \u201cFree Palestine,\u201d as they marched, carrying signs and Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n
In Melbourne, Palestinian-Australian surgeon Dr. Bushra Othman addressed the crowd, saying: \u201cSeventy-eight years ago, Palestinian people were driven from their homes carrying keys they believed they would soon use again. Those keys became heirlooms; those homes became memories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senator Lydia Thorpe told the rally that Aboriginal Australians stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish these anniversaries could be events of healing. But the Nakba is not over and continues to this very day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Greens Senator David Shoebridge accused the Australian government of \u201csilence and complicity\u201d in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saadet Gokce 17 May 2026\u2022Update: 17 May 2026 Hundreds of people on Sunday marched across Australia to mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,296002],"class_list":["post-677119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}