Tag: Al Nakba
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Right of Return still key – Nakba Day demonstrations violently suppressed by Israeli forces
15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine By Team Ramallah The 15th May marks the 65th anniversary of the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the destruction – and massacre in some cases – of more than 500 Palestinian villages by Zionist forces in 1948. 65 years on, the…
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Photo essay: March through Nablus and Tulkarem commemorates the Nakba
13th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Nablus and Tulkarem, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus Today, at around 8am, over thirty people from the Palestinian General Union of People with Disability marched through the city of Nablus to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba. After the march, a bus drove participants to Tulkarem…
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Nakba Day: Palestinian group attempts to return to 1948 territories, one arrested
By Ling Lewis 19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A Palestinian man was arrested at Ni’lin checkpoint on Tuesday, April 15 during a Nakba Day demonstration. The procession successfully crossed the checkpoint which separates the West Bank from Palestinian territories seized in 1948. They were violently forced back by occupation soldiers and…
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Nakba anniversary message
by Mazin Qumsiyeh 15 May 2012 | Popular Resistance On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds:…
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Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike
by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The deal ended a strike in which prisoners had gone without food for up to 77…