In its story about a renewed investigation into the murder of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali, this is how the New York Times describes the British occupation and then the Nakba:

“He fled his home in the British Mandate of Palestine at the age of 10 during the war that accompanied the creation of Israel.”

One little sentence that continues so many lies.

This is how the same history is shared on Handala.org, a website dedicated to al-Ali’s work and named after his most famous creation, Handala, a refugee child who represents the Palestinian search for justice: