Kunci Palestin adalah simbol rumah Palestin yang hilang di Nakba, apabila lebih separuh daripada penduduk Palestin sama ada diusir atau melarikan diri dari keganasan dalam pengusiran dan pelarian Palestin 1948 dan kemudiannya dinafikan hak untuk kembali. Hampir 75 tahun kemudian kunci itu kekal sebagai simbol kuat dan peringatan tentang kehilangan dan ketidakadilan fizikal dan emosi. [1][2]
Kunci Palestin pada demonstrasi Hari Nakba di Berlin Anak gadis dengan simbol kunci, Hari Nakba, 2010, Hebron. Tanda itu berbunyi: Arab: حتماً سنعود فلسطين, rumi:We will return to Palestinecode: ar is deprecated
Ia dianggap sebagai sebahagian daripada harapan untuk pulangan dan tuntutan terhadap harta yang hilang.[3]
Kuncinya besar dan bergaya lama.
Replika yang diperbesarkan sering ditemui di sekitar kem pelarian Palestin, dan digunakan pada demonstrasi pro-Palestin di seluruh dunia sebagai simbol kolektif. [3]
Kunci terbesar di dunia (Rekod Dunia Guinness), dalam gaya kunci Palestin yang mewakili Nakba, di Katara, Doha, Qatar
Sejak 2016, sebuah restoran Palestin terletak di Doha, Qatar, memegang Rekod Dunia Guinness untuk kunci terbesar di dunia – 2.7 tan dan 7.8 x 3 meter. [4][5]
Pintu masuk ke kem pelarian Aida, berhampiran Betlehem
Seni Palestin melambangkanResolusi Perhimpunan Agung Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu 194
Kunci sebagai sebahagian daripada perkataan Arab untuk "Peace" sebagaiseni grafiti Tembok Tebing Barat
Di luar Jericho, dengan perkataan "Kami akan kembali..."
Meital, Y.; Rayman, P. (2017). Recognition as Key for Reconciliation: Israel, Palestine, and Beyond. Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia. Brill. ISBN978-90-04-35580-4. Michal concedes the fact that Israelis do the same thing to the memory of the Nakba when saying "it was in 1948, enough talking about the past, let's talk about the future." When the Palestinians come with their keys [the Palestinian symbol of their lost homes], she says, "it's the same thing, it's a memory still burning in the hearts of families
Feldman, llana. 2008. Refusing Invisibility: Documentation and Memorialization in Palestinian Refugee Claims, Journal of Refugee Studies 21 (4): 4, page 503: "Anyone familiar with Palestinian visibility practices will certainly be aware of the importance of certain central objects within this field. Many refugees still have the keys to their houses in Palestine. Keeping these keys, and showing them to visitors and researchers, is part of a hope for return and a claim to these properties. Given this widespread practice, these keys, with their distinctive old-fashioned look, have also become symbols of refugee commitment to Palestine. At demonstrations in support of Palestinians one can often find people carrying enlarged replicas of these keys in the process transforming individual objects into collective symbols."
The Peninsula Newspaper (2016-05-16). "'Largest Key' dedicated to refugees around the world". The Peninsula Qatar. The gigantic key, dedicated to all the refugees around the world, was unveiled in a spectacular show at the Katara Amphitheatre last night featuring Palestinian Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf. “This key symbol for all the refugees in the world. We want to set a Guinness World Record to say that it is the right of these refugees to return back home. Actually this is linked particularly to Palestinian refugees."... Around 4,000 people filled the Katara Amphitheatre to witness the unveiling of the enormous key and enjoy the concert highlighted by the performance of the young Palestinian singer who is the first United Nations Relief and Works Agency regional youth ambassador for Palestine refugees.