In 1998, the former President of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, declared what day as a national day of remembrance in Palestine for the Nakba?
15 May The Nakba is the expulsion or flight of the Palestinians from their homes and lands, during the 1947-49 Palestine War and Arab-Israeli War which led to the establishment of the State of Israel. May 15 is the day on which the Israeli state officially came into being after the British ended their Mandate in Palestine.
What item of clothing, seen frequently on news media being worn by former President of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat, was popularised in the west, ?
