The Nakba in al-Ramla By Sandy Tolan

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/60yearsofdivision/2008/07/20087199114777437.html The Nakba in al-Ramla By Sandy Tolan An elderly Palestinian woman remembers the Nakba [GALLO/GETTY]The Nakba in al-Ramla is the second part of Sandy Tolan's account of the fall of an Arab town in July 1948 and the expulsion of its residents. Click here to read the first part. Firdaws Taji Khairi will always remember the voices of Israeli soldiers shouting through loudspeakers outside her home in al-Ramla, as the Nakba unfolded right before her. "Yallah Abdullah!" they cried as they pounded on people's doors with the butts of their rifles. "Go to King Abdullah! Go to Ramallah!" It was a scorching day on the coastal plain of Palestine in mid-July 1948. A couple of days earlier, the town had surrendered to Israeli forces after they stormed the... [read full story]