The 2025 Nobel Prize Winning Chemist Belonged To A Gaza Village That Israel Erased In 1948

by Maleeha Sofi SRINAGAR: In 1965, in the crowded lanes of Amman, Jordan, a young boy named Omar Mwannes Yaghi was born into a Palestinian refugee family that had been uprooted from the depopulated village of Al-Masmiyya, once nestled in the Gaza Subdistrict. His family, like thousands of others displaced during the 1948 ArabIsraeli war, []