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Thousands of Palestinians commemorate Nakba in annual ‘March of Return’

Thousands of Palestinians participated in the “March of Return” in Israel on Tuesday, which set off from the destroyed Palestinian village of al-Kabri to the western Galilee in commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, “catastrophe.” Protesters waved Palestinian flags and repeated slogans calling for the Right of Return, which refers to UN resolution 194 guaranteeing Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 the right to return to their lands in what is now […]

today3 May 2017

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Palestinian activists protest ‘Yom Ha’atzmaut’ celebrations

By Yaseen Kippie Tensions broke out at the Baxter theatre in Rondesbosch on Monday 1 May as the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) celebrated Israel's self-proclaimed Independence Day, 'Yom Ha'atzmaut', This day has been labelled differently by Palestinians as 'Yawm an-Nakba', or the ‘Day of the Catastrophe' - when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war. On Monday night, hundreds […]

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