Last Thursday, the 15. May, the 77. Nakba anniversary ("Disaster") in Palestine, Some streets were renamed the Kassler Nordstadt. They were dedicated to Palestinian women, which have been killed in the war in recent years.
With the Nakba Day on 15. May annually commemorates the expulsion and killing of Palestinians since the founding of the state of Israel 1947 to 1949 reminiscent. Many of the displaced people now live in the neighboring countries of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan or the occupied Palestinian territories and cannot return.
Since the escalation of the war there have been over 1,000 people in Gaza 1,9 Millions of people were displaced. It cost the lives of tens of thousands of people. While the Israeli war cabinet is currently escalating warfare and openly discussing the expulsion of the entire Palestinian population, People's personal fates usually go unheard in the reporting.
The activist:inside want to change this and have told us about the women's stories, whose name is now Gottschalkstrasse, Henkelstrasse, Mombachstrasse and Fiedlerstrasse carry.
The Abu Dabaan (*1996, + 2024) was a Palestinian journalist, the on 6. July 2024 was killed along with her children in an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. She was in 5. Months pregnant with her second child when she was, her 9 Month-old son and her husband on the morning of 6.7. were killed. Wafa Abu Dabaan was a journalist for Islamic University Radio and the European Institute for Training and Development (EUTD) in Belgium.
Fatima Hassouna (*2000, + 2025) was a Palestinian photojournalist. She was born on 16. April 2025 killed by an Israeli airstrike. About 18 She was in the Gaza Strip for months and suffered, the rocket attacks, the refugee flows, Death and despair documented. Ahead of her death, she wrote on Instagram: “When I die, I want a loud death". The Iranian exiled filmmaker Sepideh Farsi made a documentary about Fatima Hassouna's life with "Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk" and says about Hassouna: »She was a light, she was so talented. When you see the movie, you will understand".
Abu Akleh (*1971, + 2022) was a Palestinian-American journalist. She was born on 11. May 2022 by the Israeli military in Jenin (West Bank) shot. She was considered one of the most important journalists in the Arab world. Her brother testifies, that he was sure, that his sister had been targeted. Shireen Abu Akleh reported on 25 years for the television channel Al-Jazeera. Among other things, she was considered the “Voice of Palestine”.
Meanwhile, international aid deliveries can no longer reach people on site in the Gaza Strip. There is a lack of clean water, Food and medicine. Millions of people are threatened by hunger and bombs at the same time.
The activist:Inside see this as the escalation of a decades-long history of violence and displacement, which also has its starting point in the Nakba. Generations of Palestinians have been shaped by this attack on their existence and identity to this day. At the same time they notice: “The claim and the right to freedom and self-determination still lives today in society’s daily resistance against occupation and settler colonialism.”