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Sixty Years On, Palestinians Mourn Loss of Homeland

While Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinian refugees mourn the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) when they lost their homeland. Often ignored in Middle East peace talks, they cling to a "right of return."

Alia Shabati was 12 when she fled Jewish attacks on her village of Kabri, captured a few days after Israel's creation.

Now a matron of 72, wearing a flowery blue dress and white headscarf, her memories of Kabri in today's northern Israel are vividly intact, unlike the village, which was wiped off the map.