One man has been killed by Israeli troops and another has been injured as Palestinians gathered to commemorate "Nakba Day" in the West Bank.
Thousands of people in the West Bank, Lebanon and around the world took part in marches and events overnight.
"Nakba", which means "catastrophe" in Arabic, marks the anniversary of Palestinian displacement and dispossession during the period in which the state of Israel was created.
This year's commemorations were focused on Israel's invasion of Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.
The 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces on the outskirts of Ramallah.
Paramedics said he was with a group of young men standing on a hill when he was shot.
The Israeli military told the ABC the group were lighting fires to cause a disturbance near an Israeli checkpoint.
"A terrorist approached the soldiers in the area and hurled a brick at them from short range," the Israel Defence Forces said in a statement.
"The soldiers responded with fire, and a hit was identified."
Ramallah reflects on Nakba
Survivors of the original Nakba said what Gazans were going through now was harder than the suffering of Palestinians between 1947 and 1949.
"It's much worse," Nijmeh Hisham Gazali told the ABC.
"They didn't demolish houses on top of their owners in the Nakba.
"We just ran away and hoped we could go back."
The 79-year-old was only three years old when her family fled their home in the village of Bayt Nabala in 1948.
She and her large extended family live in the Jalazon refugee camp, which is near Ramallah in the West Bank.
"We left intending to go back, not to stay here all our lives," she said.
"We left because the leaders of that time said, 'We are not leaving permanently, we're just going to sleep under the olive trees, then return.'"
More than 700,000 Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, either because they were forced out by Jewish militias or were afraid of the fighting that was taking place between Israel and Arab armies opposed to its creation.
Now, more than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than twice as many have been displaced by Israel's invasion of Gaza.
The war was launched in retaliation for Hamas killing around 1,140 Israelis and taking another 250 people hostage on October 7.
"I feel like the Nakba has never ended," says one woman, who did not want to be identified because of her government job.
Muted commemorations in Israel and Ramallah
The war in Gaza had also cast a shadow over Israel's independence day events, which took place the day before.
Jewish leaders declared independence and the creation of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.
But the country's celebrations this year were notably muted.
In Ramallah, the Palestinian crowds were also subdued, and not as large as expected.
Many Palestinians are disenchanted with their leadership and stayed away.
Yara Hamdan, 15, did decide to march.
"We live the Nakba every single day in Gaza and what's happening is so bad," she said.
"I hope Palestine will be free this year and the war in Gaza end as soon as possible and everyone in this world can help us be free."
