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'Naqba' or celebration in Israel?

Updated on 08 May 2008

By Kylie Morris, Girish Juneja

Girish Juneja visits the wall that represents the sharpest point of separation between Israeli and Palestinian communities.

While Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary with fireworks, the mood in Palestinian communities is a very different one.

They call what happened in 1948 "naqba", or "the catastrophe".

And as they prepare for their commemorations next week, Girish Juneja has been to the West Bank, to the point of sharpest separation between these two divided communities.

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