Palestinians displaced in 1948 say Israel's war on Gaza is 'harder'

Palestinians displaced from their homes during the Nakba of 1948 can still remember how their families were uprooted and childhoods were torn apart from trauma and violence.

Now, 75 years later, they say Israel's relentless war on Gaza is even worse.

Staying with relatives after her home in central Gaza's Deir el-Balah was hit by a strike, Jabr is among an estimated 1.9 million Palestinians forced from their homes since October 7.

The scenario evokes dark historical memories of what the Arab world calls the "Nakba", or catastrophe -- the mass displacement of Palestinians during the war that coincided with Israel's creation in 1948.

The majority of Gaza's 2.4 million inhabitants are descendants of some of the 760,000 Palestinians driven out during that war.