Third Intifada – Gaza, Palestine by Ken O’Keefe – May 15, 2011 – video

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Dozens badly injured, one killed in deadly attack on peaceful march east of Gaza

[ 15/05/2011 – 05:17 PM ] BEIT HANOUN, (PIC)– An 18-year old Palestinian young man was shot dead at noon Sunday east of Gaza city in Shujaiya district. 90 other citizens, mostly children, also sustained different injuries when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened intensive fire and shelled a peaceful march held on the nakba […]

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Hamdan: 63 years of forced migration, yet Palestine is still in memory

[ 15/05/2011 – 03:44 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– The rallies that intend to march on the 63 anniversary of the Nakba towards border areas in Palestine and some Arab countries would prove that 63 years of forced migration did not make the generations forget about their Palestine, director of Hamas’s foreign relations Osama Hamdan said […]

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Dozens injured in Al-Khalil marches on Nakba anniversary

[ 15/05/2011 – 03:48 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinian citizens suffered suffocation and various injuries in Al-Khalil on Sunday during violent confrontations with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba. The PIC reporter said that the IOF troops attacked a march in Shalalde street with gas canisters and rubber […]

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Palestinians vow to continue resistance

Sun May 15, 2011 1:55PM Ahead of the 63rd anniversary of the occupation of Palestine, members of different Palestinian groups say they will continue their struggles to achieve liberation from Israel. “The Palestinian people will continue their struggle and resistance until their entire homeland is liberated, and they achieve their right to return,” Maher al-Taher, […]

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Nakba: 63 years of incessant brutality

PressTV –  Sun May 15, 2011 2:21PM |by Kourosh Ziabari Almost one year after the Israel Defense Forces raided the flotilla heading toward the Gaza Strip and killed nine Turkish peace activists aboard the MV Mavi Marmara ship, the Palestinian people will mark the 63rd anniversary of the disgraceful birth of the Israeli regime, known […]

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Israeli forces violently arrest demonstrators (including American, Dutch, German and Canadian nationals) in al-Walaja

15 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At 11 AM on al-Nakba remembrance day, 500 residents from the West Bank village of al-Wallajeh and international supporters marched towards the Israeli Apartheid Wall. The Wall was built to separate the villagers from their original land from which they were expelled in 1948. The demonstration was violently […]

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Nakba’s 63 Commemoration: Palestinian Right of Return and Israel’s Fears

PNN – Palestine News Network | 15.05.11 – 17:58 By Munjed Jadou – PNN Editor in Chief – This year Nakba Commemoration is somehow special, this date May 15,1948 is always marked by Palestinians as the day of exile and losing their country, but this year Israel did not hide its fear from a third […]

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Dr. Erakat: “The Nakba is the Defining Event in our History and Collective Struggle”

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.05.11 – 18:12 Ramallah – PNN – Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat retreated today, the 63 anniversary of Nakba, in a press release sent to media that Palestine Liberation Organization will continue to work for the Palestinian people rights. Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat “The Nakba is […]

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Teen killed in Gaza protest marking Nakba

Published today (updated) 15/05/2011 17:47 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An unidentified 18-year-old was killed and 82 others injured by Israeli fire during a march of Palestinians in Gaza toward the separation fence and Erez border with Israel on Sunday. The group, estimated to number almost 1,000, marched in commemoration of the Palestinian expulsion from homes […]

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8 said dead on Syrian, Lebanese borders by Israeli fire

Published 15/05/2011 17:44 JERUSALEM (AFP) — As many as eight were said killed by Israeli fire in incidents on the Syrian and Lebanese borders on Sunday, as Palestinians marked the 63rd anniversary of the expulsion from their homes. Two people were killed and four critically hurt by the gunfire after protesters from Syria entered the […]

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Thousands participate in march of return near Rafah terminal

[ 15/05/2011 – 02:32 PM ] RAFAH, (PIC)–  Thousands of Palestinians took part in the march of return south of the Gaza Strip and headed to the border terminal of Rafah to commemorate the Nakba. Participants chanted national slogans and called for freedom and return of refugees to their original hometowns. Sheikh Nafedh Azzam, an […]

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Gilad Atzmon: From ‘Right of Return’ to ‘Return in Practice’

Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 1:47PM | Gilad Atzmon We learned today about deadly clashes in the Syrian and Lebanese borders with Israel. We also read that similar clashes took place in Gaza and the West Bank. The Jewish State is in a siege. The IDF forces reportedly fired at Syrian, Lebanese and Gazan  ‘Nakba […]

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Palestinians mark uprooting; 5 reported killed

Palestinians youths wave flags and chant slogans during a rally calling for a reconciliation between the rival Palestinian leading factions Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) Date: Sunday May. 15, 2011 8:03 AM ET Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along two […]

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Dozens Injured by Israeli Troops gunfire as They Attack Nakba Protests

15.05.11 – 14:17| PNN Ramallah – PNN – At least 60 civilians were injured on Sunday when Israeli troops attacked Nakab protests in several parts of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Injured in Gaza – Archive by AP In Ramallah city central West Bank, 30 people were injured among them two in […]

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