The Nakba in al-Ramla
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Sandy Tolan; 20/8/07
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 nearby city of Lydda.
