Palestinians’ protests on Naksa Day were met with blood similar to that of Nakba Day protests

On the 44th anniversary of Naksa (setback) Day, Palestinians and especially in Syria marked this anniversary on Sunday with protests near the Golan Heights in which the Israeli occupation fired on the protesters and martyred 23 people.

Official news agency SANA quoted Health Minister Wael al-Halki as saying the death toll included a woman and a child, adding that another 350 people suffered gunshot wounds.

Three weeks ago Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead 13 Palestinian protesters in Lebanon and Syria during protests marking the Nakba "catastrophe" of Zionist entity’s founding in 1948.

Sunday's protest was held to mark the 1967 war, when Israel occupied the Golan Heights, as well as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians in Syria marched down from a hilltop overlooking the Druze village of Majdal Shams on Sunday to the border with occupied Palestine.

According to SANA, the martyrs are Mahmoud Awad al-Sawan, Ahmad Mahmoud al-Said, Majdi Zeidan, Alaa Hussein al-Wahish, Muhammad Deeb Issa, Ahmad Yaser al-Rajdan, Said Hussein Ahmad, Ahmad Mahmoud al-Hajah, Abdel Rahman al-Jareedeh, Ramzi Said, Fayez Ahmad Abbas, Fadi Majed Nahar, Jihad Ahmad Awad and Enas Shreitah, Thaer Hamid, Wasim Dwah, Shadi Hussein, Ibrahim Issa, Izzat Muswada, Mohammad al-Ashmawi, Mahmoud al-Arja and Ali Amshawi.

SANA correspondent in Quneitra said "the Israeli occupation forces used live bullets and tear gas bombs against the young men who want to return to their occupied lands."

He added that the Israeli forces targeted the gatherings with phosphorus bombs and spread snipers along the barbed wire to hold back the Syrian and Palestinians youths who continued in their attempts to cross the barbed wire into the occupied Syrian Golan from various areas opposite to the occupied Majdal Shams village.

IN THEIR HOMELAND ALSO ATTACKED

In Palestine, ten Palestinians were injured near Kalandia barrier separating Al-Quds and Ramallah in the West Bank as they were shot by the occupation forces during marking the Naksa Day.

Palestine Today News Agency quoted Palestinian medical sources as saying that 10 injured protesters were taken to Ramallah hospitals after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces, while dozens were suffocated after inhaling tear gas.

Reports from occupied Quds (Jerusalem) said that the Israeli occupation forces attacked hundreds of Palestinian youth who marched from Kalandia Camp, north of the occupied Jerusalem, towards the Israeli military barrier at the entrance of the camp.

The Palestinian News Agency Ma'an reported that many Palestinians were injured when the Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber bullets and tear bombs against the marchers to prevent them from moving forward.

The Israeli occupation forces also attacked dozens of young Palestinians who gathered in Nablus city, north of the West Bank, and in the village of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip, who were heading to Beit Hanoun Crossing.