Palestinians mark the ‘Nakba’
Friday, May 16th, 200815/4/08
Palestinians have held protests across the occupied territories to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, when they were uprooted from their homes by the establishment of Israel. In the West Bank on Thursday, rallies and sirens commemorated the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 war. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, speaking from Ramallah, called for an end to occupation and settlement building.”It’s time for the occupation to leave our land … and for the ‘catastrophe’ to come to an end,” Abbas said in a televised speech. “Our Palestinian people have carried in pain the memory, and hope to return to their homeland.”
