[ 14/05/2011 - 08:37 AM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have intensified tight security measures in the occupied city of Jerusalem and at its entrances to the West Bank to prevent the Palestinians from organizing marches on the 63rd anniversary of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe).
The IOF also set up military checkpoints inside the city and barred the entry of Palestinians from the West Bank.
The Israeli security apparatuses expressed fears that the marches on the Nakba anniversary would turn into an uprising like what happened in some Arab countries.
Palestinian youth groups had announced their intention to organize events and marches on the Nakba anniversary in all occupied territories and neighboring Arab countries.
On Friday, the IOF kidnapped 13 Palestinian young men in occupied Jerusalem on allegation they wanted to cause riots on the eve of the Nakba day which falls on Sunday.
In this regard, Palestinian movements and organizations in the 1948 occupied lands invited the Palestinians to participate on this occasion in a massive march to be organized on Saturday.
In a meeting on Thursday, they said the march would start from Bab Al-Amoud square, one of Jerusalem's oldest gates, and pass through Sultan Suleiman and Salahuddin streets towards the Palestinian homes that extremist Jewish groups seized or intend to take them over in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in central Jerusalem.
Dozens injured, three arrested during West Bank march crackdowns
[ 14/05/2011 - 08:01 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Dozens were injured and at least three arrested, including foreign activists, during Friday marches in the West Bank.
The marchers raised Palestinian flags and those of varied Palestinian factions, and called for the release of West Bank political prisoners, so as to implement the Hamas-Fatah unity deal signed days ago in Cairo.
In Ma'sara, the IOF arrested Hassan Barijiya, the coordinator of the popular committee to resist the wall in Bethlehem, and two more foreign activists during a crackdown on a weekly march to protest the separation wall and settlement activity.
The march also came to mark the 63rd Nakba (disaster), commemorating the occupation of Palestine at the hands of Zionist gangs.
Three Palestinians were injured and dozens suffered the effects of breathing tear gas after IOF soldiers clashed with marchers in Bil'in village.
Demonstrators, highlighting the Nakba, dressed in traditional clothing and carried baggage on a cart pulled by a donkey, symbolizing that those displaced would return to their homes.
The soldiers showered them with stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets, and tear gas, and sprayed them with waste water mixed with chemicals.
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