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Palestinians march in annual mourning ritual marking their'catastrophe' since israel creation by efwegbe erergeer
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Palestinians march in annual mourning ritual marking their'catastrophe' since israel creation by EFWEGBE ERERGEER
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RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement thatfollowed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope,stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashingvictory signs and carrying banners proclaiming their right ofreturn. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced fromtheir villages during the war that established the Jewish state in1948, an event they commemorate every year as their "Nakba," orcatastrophe. Today, surviving refugees and their descendants number severalmillion who are scattered across the globe, many still living insqualid camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and surrounding Arabcountries. Saadat Jaber, 62, said he has passed on the story of his family'suprooting from what is now the Israeli city of Lod to hisoffspring. "I still have hope," Jaber said as he marched with thousands ofothers to the center of the West Bank town of Ramallah.
"Now Israelis a great power, but there were empires in history that collapsedand people that were oppressed by these empires took back theirrights." In three West Bank areas north and south of Jerusalem, dozens ofPalestinian stone-throwers clashed with Israeli troops who firedtear gas and rubber-coated steel pellets. The Palestinian RedCrescent said 30 people were hurt by the rubber bullets and dozenssuffered from tear gas inhalation. The 64th anniversary of the Nakba comes after nearly two decades offailed efforts to negotiate the terms of a Palestinian state withIsrael. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu have been unable to find enough common ground torenew talks that broke down in 2008.
Abbas says Israel must haltsettlement construction on occupied land sought by thePalestinians. Netanyahu says talks should resume withoutpreconditions. The Nakba Day commemorations highlighted the politicaldisagreements between Abbas and his main political rival, theIslamic militant Hamas, which seized Gaza from him in 2007. Abbas seeks a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem— territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War —but has been vague on the fate of the refugees.
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations never got down to details on theissue, though there is broad opposition in Israel to a massresettlement of Palestinians, which would rob Israel of its Jewishmajority. In a Nakba Day speech late Monday, the Western-backed Abbasreferred to ending Israel's occupation of the lands captured in1967, saying that "no matter how strong and aggressive, it will beremoved." Hamas' founding charter calls for Israel's destruction and returnof all refugees. While some Hamas leaders now raise the possibilityof a state alongside Israel, they won't say whether they considerthis to be a temporary arrangement. In Gaza City, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said that "ourmessage to the refugees is that we will not give up the right ofreturn ..
We will not accept any project that abandons the rightof return or affects our sacred rights to the homeland." In Ramallah, the seat of Abbas' self-rule government, thousandsmarched to the city's central Manara Square. During a one-minutesiren, many stood at attention and flashed V-for-victory signs. In the biblical town of Bethlehem, hundreds of school childrenwearing black T-shirts with 1948 printed on them marched throughthe streets, waving black flags that read "64 years of Nakba." Clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli troopserupted at Rachel's Tomb, an Israeli enclave in Bethlehem, and atthe Ofer and Qalandia checkpoints near Jerusalem. In Hamas-run Gaza, some 3,000 Palestinians marched to the localU.N. office.
They carried banners reading "We shall return" andlisting the names of their original villages. Haniyeh and severalHamas security officials ran a two-kilometer (1.5 mile) race thatended at the Palestinian parliament. On an upbeat note, Palestinians celebrated the end of a weekslonghunger strike Monday by hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel.The fate of prisoners is a deeply emotional issue; nearly everyonehere has a neighbor, friend or relative of who spent time in anIsraeli jail. The prisoners obtained better conditions, including more familyvisits and limits to a controversial Israeli policy that canimprison people for years without charge.
Israel extracted pledgesby militant groups to halt violent activities, and by negotiatingan end to the strike with the help of Egypt, prevented thepotentially explosive scenario of prisoners dying of hunger. ___ Associated Press writers Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip,and Dalia Nammari in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to thisreport. I am an expert from House Plants, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as automotive rubber grommets , plastic pvc cards.
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