This refers to a part of land in occupied Palestine following the 1948 Nakba. It includes the areas that are currently under Israeli control, which were significantly larger than the boundaries originally proposed by the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. These boundaries were established through "truce" agreements between the occupation and neighboring Arab states.

We call Palestinians living there the '48 Palestinians' as that was the year their grandparents were forcefully displaced within their homeland. Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and diaspora are not permitted to enter or live in 1948 Palestine, and are only granted special permits to work for "Israelis". Since October 7, many of these Palestinians, who rely on working in 1948 lands, were stripped of their work permits as part of collective punishment by the occupying forces.