Clashes erupt as Palestinians prepare to mark ‘Nakba Day’
Clashes have erupted in the Israeli occupied territories of Palestine as hundreds attend marches in preparation for the commemoration of Nakba Day.
Sporadic clashed were reported on Friday in towns and villages across the West Bank as Palestinians protested for their right of return to the occupied Palestinian territories.
Images showed protesters, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans against the Israeli regime, being gassed by Israeli forces in the village of Bilin near Ramallah. Israeli forces also dispersed a demonstration of cyclists in the area.
Two Palestinians were injured after Israelis used live ammunition against them in the town of Kufr Qoddum north of West Bank.
The protests come two days ahead of mass march planned by the Palestinians to commemorate the Nakba, or 'catastrophe', which is the day Palestinians mark the loss of their homes in the 1948 war that resulted in the creation of Israel and the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Millions of Palestinians and rights activists around the world are expected to observe the official commemoration on May 15 while a huge march will be held across West Bank and also in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces have, over the past days, intensified arrests and night raids on the Palestinian homes in a bid to prevent prominent figures and organizers from attending the event.
A March of Return was also held Thursday as Palestinians living under the occupation of Israel in the town of Negev (Naqab) commemorated Nakba as Israeli settlers and military forces was celebrating the occupation.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) says some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their lands in 1948 and were scattered across refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The number of refugees today is well above five million.
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