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Palestinians Killed at Nakba Rallies

(Al Jazeera English: 1534 PT, May 15, 2011) Several people have been killed and scores of others wounded in the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Ras Maroun in Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as Palestinians mark the "Nakba," or day of "catastrophe."

 

The "Nakba" is how Palestinians refer to the 1948 founding of the state of Israel, when an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled following Israel's declaration of statehood. Al Jazeera's Nisreen El Shamyleh reports.

 

 

Egypt Police Fire Tear Gas at Nakba Protest

(Al Jazeera English: 1707 PT, May 15, 2011) Egyptian police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo, after a group of demonstrators reportedly attempted to storm the building. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports.

 

 

Marking Nakba

(Press TV: 0509 PT, May 16, 2011) Analysis of the Nakba protests from Iran's Press TV.

 

 

 

 
 

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Debate Over Future of Historic Palestinian Village

(Al Jazeera English: 0806 PT, May 11, 2011) The Jerusalem District Court says the lands of Lifta should not be offered for sale to real estate developers, but Israel's Land Authority could act otherwise

 

 

 
 

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Gaza Mourns Children Killed by Israeli Airstrikes

(Mosaic Video Alert: March 24, 2011) New TV reports on the Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza Strip  which targeted the neighborhoods of al-Shuja'eiya and al-Zaitoun and killed nine people, including several children. The public held funerals for the martyrs on what the government called the "day of mourning their souls." The mourners believe that Israel "carefully and deliberately" chose the timing of the attacks, as the world is preoccupied with the revolutions occurring throughout the Arab world.

 

 
 

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Israeli Foreign Minister Warns Iran over Warship Moves

(Euronews: 1330 PST, February 16, 2011) Two Iranian warships are headed towards the Suez Canal en route to Syria with Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman hinting the Jewish state may respond. Lieberman said in a speech: "Israel cannot forever ignore these provocations."

 

Israel has long accused Iran and Syria of providing weapons to Islamist groups seeking its elimination. Iran's state news agency said the two ships had been dispatched on a year-long traning mission in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

 

 
 

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