10 months after their displacement from Jenin camp: 'This Nakba is even more painful than the first'

In light of the Israeli military's new large-scale operation on Nov. 26, 2024, we invite you to revisit this article originally published on Nov. 10, 2025. “I kept this key my whole life. Now, it’s lost in the rubble of the camp,” says Ahmad Rabbo. He is one of tens of thousands of Jenin residents who had to evacuate the refugee camp, located in the occupied West Bank, in February 2025 after weeks of Israeli army raids.Along with 500 families, the man in his 90s was relocated to the Arab American University on a hill outside the city.Rabbo is one of the last living witnesses of the 1948 catastrophe, or Nakba, having kept since then the key to his house in al-Mansi, about 30 kilometers southeast of Haifa — a symbol of the Palestinian right of return. His gaze hidden beneath the folds of his immaculate kuffiyeh, he sighs: “Look at...