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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's
creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for
a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners
proclaiming their right of return.
Hundreds
of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their villages
during the war that established the Jewish state in 1948, an event they
commemorate every year as their "Nakba," or catastrophe.
Today,
surviving refugees and their descendants number several million who are
scattered across the globe, many still living in squalid camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and surrounding Arab countries.
Saadat
Jaber, 62, said he has passed on the story of his family's uprooting
from what is now the Israeli city of Lod to his offspring.
"I
still have hope," Jaber said as he marched with thousands of others to
the center of the West Bank town of Ramallah. "Now Israel is a great
power, but there were empires in history that collapsed and people that
were oppressed by these empires took back their rights."
In three West Bank areas north and south of Jerusalem, dozens of Palestinian stone-throwers clashed with Israeli troops
who fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel pellets. The Palestinian Red
Crescent said 30 people were hurt by the rubber bullets and dozens
suffered from tear gas inhalation.
The
64th anniversary of the Nakba comes after nearly two decades of failed
efforts to negotiate the terms of a Palestinian state with Israel....READ MORE
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