Sunday, May 15, 2011

At least 15 killed dozens of Palestinians crossing into Israel from Syria and Lebanon

The 'Nakba' (the day Palestinians remember the exile of his people following the creation of Israel in 1948) has become Israel's borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza Strip in a war front, while continuing various manifestations in the West Bank and riots. The result of these clashes has been the death of at least 15 people.

In addition, another 170 were injured in the protests. In the border between Israel and Syria, tens of Palestinian demonstrators concentrated on the occasion of the 'Nakba' (literally 'catastrophe') near the Golan Heights (occupied by Israel in the war of 67) have crossed the border from Syria starting a firefight with Israeli soldiers.

According to initial reports, there are at least 15 deaths and numerous injuries. "Syria dominates with an iron fist and wild country as we have seen in recent days and has allowed this attack to divert attention from its repression," a government source accuses Israeli public radio. In the clash, bullets against stone.

"The soldiers kept a confrontation with the protesters, who are throwing stones," said military spokesman Major-General Yoav Mordechai, who said it is "a provocation by Iran," the Israeli news service 'Ynet'. Israeli government has said, has ordered the Army to "act containment to prevent an escalation but with determination to defend the borders." At present, Israeli troops searching for the numerous infiltrates mostly of Palestinian origin, while several ambulances have been deployed on both sides of the border.

On the Syrian side continued past the 14.00 hours the Palestinian demonstration against Israel and demanding the return of 'refugees from 48'. This violent episode, unprecedented in recent decades, it has to do with both the Palestinian and Nabka internal earthquake shakes the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad.

Just after 16.00 hours, nearly 200 Palestinians who infiltrated Israel had already been returned to Syria, according to Israeli sources. The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned the "criminal practices" of Israel in the Golan Heights, the Palestinian territories and southern Lebanon and called on the international community to Israel ailment full responsibility for such practices, according to a source that department, quoted by state news agency Sana.

In Lebanon, the scene has been repeated to death, according to various sources, at least 10 protesters of the Nakba in the village of Maroun Ras, a few meters from Israel. Earlier, the Lebanese army and UNIFIL (United Nations troops in southern Lebanon) had prevented hundreds of demonstrators from crossing the border.

Arab media figure rose to six dead, killed by the Lebanese army as the IDF. Palestinian medical sources said another young man allegedly killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City. Throughout the Gaza Strip are at least 67 Palestinians wounded. Fifteen of them, mostly children, were hit by shrapnel from Israeli tank shells lanzadosp or in the Palestinian town of Beit Lahia, as Selmeya Abu Adham, a spokesman for the emergency services in Gaza, adding that the rest of the wounded were by gunshot.

The "Nakba" (catastrophe, and define the creation of Israel and the war of 48 that turned hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees) is to be the scene of claims, proclamations and clashes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In the Gaza Strip, thousands of Palestinians, mostly youths, marched toward the Israeli border post being held back by gunfire.

TV said the Islamist group Hamas and Palestinian medical sources, 45 wounded. More than 20,000 demonstrators gathered Sunday at Manara Square in Ramallah, the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), expect the next Nakba commemoration in Jerusalem, who aspire to be its capital.

Many Palestinian towns are mobilized to remind their refugees, chanting slogans against Israel and waiting for the UN recognition of statehood. In the morning, an Israeli Arab with his truck rolled over pedestrians in south Tel Aviv causing one dead and 16 wounded. According to one police estimate, and the testimonies gathered this is an attack and that the driver tried to stop and hit everything in sight at a distance of two kilometers.

Dozens of Palestinians threw stones at soldiers and police in several Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem to respond with tear gas. Violence and tension also close to the Israeli checkpoint Kalandia, one of the main entrances to the city of Ramallah. On the occasion of the Nakba and the massive appeal Palestinian and Arab forums on the Internet at the beginning of a Third Intifada, thousands of police and soldiers have been deployed at strategic points.

In Ramallah, a siren for 63 seconds recalled the Nakba. "We have every right to return to our homes in Haifa and Lod. And we'll do it next year or in 10", says a Palestinian youth carrying a black flag. While President Abu Mazen, warns that never give the right of return of refugees who fled or were expelled from their lands, the leader of the Islamist group Hamas, Ismail Haniya has been clear from Gaza calling for armed struggle against Israel: "We hope that today is a very important day.

We must put an end to the Zionist project in Palestine. " For the first time in three years, Hamas militants freely manifest Csjordania following the agreement of reconciliation with Abu Mazen's Fatah. Palestinian analysts agree that the NPA is not interested at present in a popular and armed confrontation with Israel since the objective is to obtain recognition of their state in September when it meets the UN assembly.

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