Summary
An organization campaigning on behalf of the Palestinian Unrecognized villages inside Israel, founded and directed by Muhammad Abu al-Hayja of Ayn Hawd al-Jadida (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.293).
Details
- It is named not because there are forty such villages — there are far more — but because the association was founded in the fortieth year after the Nakba, 1988; the name stems also from the fact that Arabs commonly recommemorate a person’s death forty days after his passing (PDF p.293).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Muhammad Abu al-Hayja, Ayn Hawd, Unrecognized villages