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yallair7al:

A little boy in Idleb, Syria … he suffered through unimaginable agony, and then died.

Thanks @Racanarchy

Shame on U Bashar !!

thepeacefulterrorist:

Palestinians mark ‘Nakba Day’ in Gaza, West Bank

In the West Bank, Gaza and refugee camps across the Arab world, Palestinians marked “Nakba (the catastrophe) Day” - the dayIsrael was founded on Wednesday.

In Palestinian towns, at exactly noon a memorial siren was sounded, its length 65 seconds, one second for every year Israel has existed.

In the afternoon hours, Palestinian youths began clashing withIDF forces in a number of locations in the West Bank. They hurled stones at security forces who returned fire with riot dispersing equipment.

In Jerusalem’s Nablus road, a Jew was attacked by an Arab. The assailant was arrested and the victim sustained light wounds. Six Arab youth assaulted Jews on their way to the Western Wall. Four soldiers and six police officers were lightly injured in clashes across the country.

Clashes broke out in Qalandiya in north Jerusalem, in the Al-Arub refugee camp near Bethlehem and in the Pawer refugee camp near Hebron, as well as Turmus Eia, east of Ramallah.

Palestinian assailants near the West Bank village of Hursa hurled a Molotov cocktail at an IDF jeep patrolling the area. The jeep was torched and four IDF soldiers were lightly injured. Two were were taken to hospital for treatment.

A few Palestinians attempted to reach the site where an outpost had been erected, near the village of Al-Azaryia in E-1 southeast of Jerusalem. According to them, the IDF and Border Guard forces prevented them from reaching the site, where they planned to plant trees and wave Palestinian flags. 

Clashes broke out near Jerusalem’s Old City, where eight Arab protesters were detained so far. Three officers were injured in rock-hurling incidents, all lightly.

In Ramallah, hundreds took part in the main procession, from the grave of Yasser Arafat towards the city’s square bearing his name. There, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave a televised speech.

Abbas said that Palestinians will not agree to any arrangement that compromises their right to a free and sovereign state in the areas under Israeli control since 1967. Abbas further added that the Palestinians will continue to fight for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and a just solution for Palestinian refugees.

In the Gaza Strip, “Nakba Day” was marked with a memorial siren in the morning hours.

Afterwards,processions were held in a number of districts in the strip.

(via palestinianliberator)

israelfacts:

This Week in History: On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was established, creating the largest refugee population in the world. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, “Jewish forces expelled over a million Palestinians from their homes at gunpoint, massacred civilians and deliberately destroyed hundreds of Palestinian villages.”

Palestinians who escaped persecution from Jewish forces fled to Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank. As a result, there are now 4.5 million Palestinian refugees without the right to return to their homes in the land now called Israel. Many refugees still retain old deeds and keys to homes now occupied by Israelis.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is known as al-Nakba - the Palestinian “Catastrophe” - and is commemorated on Nakba Day on the 15th of May every year, the day after Israeli Independence Day on the Gregorian calendar.

Throughout its history Israel has denied that al Nakba - which started just years after the Holocaust - ever took place, and just recently the Israeli government passed a fascist law that allows the denial of state funding to NGOs that participate in Nakba commemorations. In 2009, it banned the use of the term “Nakba” in school textbooks.

Palestinians don’t consider the Nakba to have ever ended, rather, as Israel continues its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to this day - evicting them from their homes and demolishing others’ - it is ongoing.

Photos: Top: Thousands of Palestinians throng the beach as they are forced out of their homeland / Bottom: An elderly Palestinian couple during the mass exodus, Palestine, 1948 (UNRWA)

(via altapetit)

nowinexile:

On May 15, 1948, 65 years ago Jewish Zionist militias launched a massive attack on the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine to ethnically cleanse them from their land in order to establish Israel as their Jewish state. This lead more than 750,000 Palestinians to flee their homes and become displaces as refugees in the neighboring countries. Most of the families that fled did not even have time to pack their belonging or anything in fear of being massacred by the vicious Jewish militias who went through villages massacring its inhabitants who refused to leave, most of whom were poor villagers and unarmed farmers. 

“We must do everything to insure they never return. The old will die and the young will forget” David Ben-Gurion – First Prime Minister of Israel, 1949.

We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. And one day, soon, we will return!

(via mostafa7md)

somewhere-in-palestine:

Haifa - Palestine

Palestinians are crowded on ships to take them to Acre soon after 

 they were ethnically cleansed, April 1948.

al-Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, “The Catastrophe”)

deemzbeamz:

Palestinians fleeing Jaffa after twin offensives by the Haganah and the Irgun zionist gangs

Jaffa, Palestine

1948

http://btd.palestine-studies.org/content/fleeing-jaffa

nowinexile:

Jewish soldiers looting whatever that was left behind from the Almalha village after terrorizing and driving its Palestinian inhabitants out. 6/1/1949, Palestine.