Palestinians are on Tuesday marking the Nakba Day (Catastrophe) when the Israeli extorter occupied Palestine and expelled its people from their land in May 15 1948.
Palestinians are on Tuesday marking the Nakba Day (Catastrophe) when the Israeli extorter occupied Palestine and expelled its people from their land in May 15 1948.
Thousands of Palestinians took to streets in West Bank and Gaza to mark the anniversary, as they were hailing the end of hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.
A general strike was being observed by merchants across the West Bank and Gaza, as well as in the main Arab towns and cities inside the occupied territories, officials said.
Loud sirens blared across the West Bank city of Ramallah at midday with people observing a minute's silence ahead of a huge rally in the Clock Square.
Throughout the city, cars were decked out with black flags carrying a picture of a key and the word "return" in English and Arabic to remember homes they were forced from.
Hundreds also gathered at the nearby Ofer military prison, and at the Qalandiya crossing between Ramallah and al-Quds, where youths hurled stones at Israeli troops, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them, AFP correspondents said.
Further north, several thousand people gathered in Nablus city center waving flags and calling for the right of return.
But they also hailed the successful end of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which was resolved late on Monday when prisoner leaders signed a deal with Israel, agreeing to end their hunger strike in exchange for an easing of their conditions.
Thousands more demonstrated in the southern city of Hebron which was turned into a sea of red, white, black and green Palestinian flags, with protesters also celebrating the successful end of the prisoners' strike.
In east al-Quds, clashes broke out in the early morning between police and stone-throwing demonstrators in the east neighborhood of Issawiya.
And in downtown Gaza City, thousands joined a march organized by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, AFP correspondents said.
