Palestinian girls wearing traditional Arabic dresses take part in an event commemorating the Nakba, or the catastrophe, the Arabic term used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, May 8, 2008. Hundreds of thousands were uprooted during the 1948 war over Israel's creation, and some 4.5 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants are scattered across the region today. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
