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JENIN, PALESTINE - MAY 15, 2026: Palestinian Rahma Abdul Razzaq Hammad, 83, never imagined she would live through the Nakba twice: first as a child, when Israeli forces displaced her from the village of al-Sindiyana near Haifa in 1948, and again 78 years later, when she fled her home in the Jenin refugee camp to avoid an Israeli military offensive.From a small room in the town of Zababdeh, south-east of Jenin, where she has taken shelter, Hammad recalled two journeys of displacement separated by a lifetime but bound by fear, loss and the scattering of her family.Hammad told Anadolu, on the 78th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, that her life has felt like “a cycle of repeated displacement.” It began in al-Sindiyana and has not ended, she said, as Palestinian families continue to be displaced from the Jenin refugee camp.The Israeli army has continued its offensive in the northern West Bank since Jan. 21, 2025, starting in the Jenin refugee camp before expanding to the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps, destroying hundreds of homes and displacing more than 50,000 Palestinians.“Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” is the term Palestinians use for the day Israel was declared on most of their land on May 15, 1948, after Zionist militias committed massacres against them and drove them from their homes.Palestinians mark the Nakba every year on May 15 with marches, events, and exhibitions in the Palestinian territories and around the world to demand their rights, including the right of return for millions of refugees.Hammad said her family comes from al-Sindiyana, a village near Haifa, from which they were displaced during the 1948 Nakba, when she was a child no older than five years old.She recalled the first displacement, when her family left the village on foot amid fear and chaos, moving between villages and areas until they reached the Jenin refugee camp. (Footage by Qais Omar Darwesh Omar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)