Dear friends,
On May 6, more than 15,000 Palestinians and their supporters marked the 17th annual March of Return in the destroyed village of Lubya in the Galilee. In 1948, more than 2,700 Palestinians were expelled from Lubya by Zionist forces. In its place, Israel has created the Golani Industrial Area and established the towns of Givat Avni and Lavi (a hebrewised version of the village’s original name).
The Palestinian Nakba marks the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948 by Zionist forces. Nearly 1 million Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes and lands. More than 750,000 Palestinians fled to neighbouring Arab countries, while 150,000 Palestinians became internally displaced refugees inside the newly created Israel state.
Please find below a round up of photos from the march of return. I have also included a report from Maan News on the march.
You can also read Dan Cohen's report on Mondoweiss about the March by clicking here. The Alternative Information Centre also has a report (click here)
In solidarity,
Kim
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On May 6, more than 15,000 Palestinians and their supporters marked the 17th annual March of Return in the destroyed village of Lubya in the Galilee. In 1948, more than 2,700 Palestinians were expelled from Lubya by Zionist forces. In its place, Israel has created the Golani Industrial Area and established the towns of Givat Avni and Lavi (a hebrewised version of the village’s original name).
The Palestinian Nakba marks the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948 by Zionist forces. Nearly 1 million Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes and lands. More than 750,000 Palestinians fled to neighbouring Arab countries, while 150,000 Palestinians became internally displaced refugees inside the newly created Israel state.
Please find below a round up of photos from the march of return. I have also included a report from Maan News on the march.
You can also read Dan Cohen's report on Mondoweiss about the March by clicking here. The Alternative Information Centre also has a report (click here)
In solidarity,
Kim
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Palestinian refugees being expelled from Lubya on 18/7/1948.
Photo via Tweet Palestine
March of Return in Lubya. Photo by Activestills.
Photo by Activestills.
Photo by Activestills
Israeli police rip Palestinian flag from cars during the March of Return
Photo by Activestills
Zionists stage picket yelling "Death to the Arabs" at 15,000 Palestinians marking the March of Return in Lubya. Photo by Dan Cohen via Mondoweiss.
Israeli group Zochrot worked with Palestinians to display photos of the residents expelled from Lubya in 1948 in the destroyed village. Photo by Mahmood Jrere
Photo by Dan Cohen via Mondoweiss
Photo by Tweet Palestine
Photo by Alternative Information Centre
Photo by Ammar Awad via Mondoweiss
Photo by Mahmood Jrere
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Maan News: Published 07/05/2014 (updated) 08/05/2014 13:53
Palestinian residents of Israel hold up their national flag as they march for the right of return for refugees expelled during the 1948 war that followed the creation of the state of Israel, near Tiberias on May 6, 2014 (AFP Ahmad Gharabli)
LUBYA (AFP) -- Some 10,000
Palestinians rallied in northern Israel on Tuesday to demand the right
of return for refugees expelled after the creation of the Israeli state
in 1948.
The demonstration took place in the Israeli village of Lavi, which was built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Lubya.
Lubya was home to 2,726 Palestinians until 1948, when Jewish mobs captured the village during the conflict that led to Israel's creation.
Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and read out the names of 530 Palestinian villages that were forcibly displaced 66 years ago, before observing a minute's silence in their memory.
"A demonstration organized by Israeli Arab associations gathered about 10,000 people and two youths were arrested for violence against the police," Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
Groups demanding the right of return for Palestinians expelled from their homes in 1948 organized the event under the slogan: "Your 'independence' day is our 'Nakba'," Arabic for catastrophe.
"There will be no peace, no stability and no reconciliation without the refugees' right of return," lawmaker Mohammad Barakei told AFP.
More than 760,000 Palestinians -- estimated today to number 4.8 million with their descendants -- fled or were driven from their homes in 1948.
Palestinians mark Nakba day on May 15, but Palestinian citizens of Israel hold demonstrations on Israeli independence day, which fell on Tuesday this year.
The Palestinian population of Israel is made up of around 1.3 million people, some 20 percent of Israel's population.
Most of Lubya's original inhabitants settled in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the suburbs of Damascus.
In Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, police dispersed a demonstration by Jewish extremists, who marched through the streets of the Old City chanting anti-Arab slogans, the police spokeswoman said.
Police arrested two of the demonstrators who tried to force their way past a checkpoint, she added.
Ma'an staff contributed to this report
The demonstration took place in the Israeli village of Lavi, which was built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Lubya.
Lubya was home to 2,726 Palestinians until 1948, when Jewish mobs captured the village during the conflict that led to Israel's creation.
Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and read out the names of 530 Palestinian villages that were forcibly displaced 66 years ago, before observing a minute's silence in their memory.
"A demonstration organized by Israeli Arab associations gathered about 10,000 people and two youths were arrested for violence against the police," Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
Groups demanding the right of return for Palestinians expelled from their homes in 1948 organized the event under the slogan: "Your 'independence' day is our 'Nakba'," Arabic for catastrophe.
"There will be no peace, no stability and no reconciliation without the refugees' right of return," lawmaker Mohammad Barakei told AFP.
More than 760,000 Palestinians -- estimated today to number 4.8 million with their descendants -- fled or were driven from their homes in 1948.
Palestinians mark Nakba day on May 15, but Palestinian citizens of Israel hold demonstrations on Israeli independence day, which fell on Tuesday this year.
The Palestinian population of Israel is made up of around 1.3 million people, some 20 percent of Israel's population.
Most of Lubya's original inhabitants settled in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the suburbs of Damascus.
In Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, police dispersed a demonstration by Jewish extremists, who marched through the streets of the Old City chanting anti-Arab slogans, the police spokeswoman said.
Police arrested two of the demonstrators who tried to force their way past a checkpoint, she added.
Ma'an staff contributed to this report
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