Seventy-five years ago, Zionist militias stormed Palestine, killing 15,000 Palestinians and violently expelling 750,000 more from their villages and lands to make way for the formation of Israel.

This is known as the Nakba — the “catastrophe” in Arabic, and many have tried to draw parallels between that historical trauma and the current assault Israel is waging on Gaza.

“Because this didn’t start on October 7, it started in 1948,” Darin Sallam, writer and director of the critically acclaimed film ‘Farha’ tells TRT World.

“This is not a complicated conflict. This is not a religious conflict. It is not a war. It is an occupier and the occupied. It is an oppressor and the oppressed. It is a coloniser and the colonised, and that began in 1948.”

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