The rally at Free Derry Corner organised by the Derry branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC).
The ‘Nakba’ – which comes from the Arabic for ‘disaster’ – refers to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians after the Palestinian war.
Photos by George Sweeney / Derry Journal.

5. Dr Sameh Hassan, North West Islamic Association, speaking at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, at a gathering to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 31
Dr Sameh Hassan, North West Islamic Association, speaking at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, at a gathering to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 31 Photo: George Sweeney

6. Some of the people who gathered at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 27
Some of the people who gathered at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 27 Photo: George Sweeney

7. Seventeen year old Ava O’Reilly speaking at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, at a gathering to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 28
Seventeen year old Ava O’Reilly speaking at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, at a gathering to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 28 Photo: George Sweeney

8. Some of the people who gathered at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 24
Some of the people who gathered at Free Derry Wall, on Saturday afternoon, to remember ‘The Nakba’, also known as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’, - the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2319GS – 24 Photo: George Sweeney

