Mid May is an annual occasion on which Palestinians mourn the painful displacement and defeat of more than 750,000 of their people from their towns and villages in historic Palestine before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

On May 15, 1948, tens of thousands of Palestinians were transferred to several refugee camps which the United Nations (UN) had established in several Arab countries and the Gaza Strip. The refugees thought they would be allowed to return to their original homes within a few days, but it has been seventy years since then and they have not been able to go back.

"We left our homes with our children to save our lives, it had been tough times though, we were forced to run away," Ahmad Qadada, a Nakba survivor told CGTN with eyes full of tears. The old man said that despite the fact that it has been seventy years since their displacement, he keeps telling his children and grandchildren about the right of Palestinian refugees' to return to their homes. "We will never ever give up our right to return to our homeland," he said with a bitter voice.

On the 70th anniversary of the Palestinians' day of disaster (Nakba), funerals of more than 60 Palestinians who were shot dead by Israeli troops in protests against the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem were held in different areas of the Gaza Strip. 

"We lived the Nakba 70 years ago, our children are living a new Nakba today, going through a new Nakba committed by the US against the Palestinians, which granted our holy city and the capital of a future state to Israel," Essam Hamad, coordinator of the Great March of Return campaign said.

Senior PLO official Saeb Erekat said the embassy move was a stab in the Palestinian Authority's (PA) back. "US President Donald Trump has dealt the Palestinians a new disaster after he announced in December last year that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and launched the process of moving the embassy there."

Trump's embassy gambit has made the political situation more complicated for the Palestinian leadership. Furthermore, it made Palestinian people cling more than ever to their right to live in the holy city and to return to the lands which they were forced to leave in 1948.

It is obvious that Trump’s inordinate policies in the Middle East have poured oil on the flames of a conflict which hasn't calmed since 1948.