It's been 60 years since Al Nakbah, or the catastrophe, when more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their hometowns in what is present-day Israel. After the wars of 1948 and 1967, those refugees number 7 million –about 10 percent live in and around New York. Many of them, along with their supporters, made their way the front of the United Nations building Friday evening, to commemorate generations of exile. Yasmin Madadi reports.

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