Jordanian police announced Monday that 25 people, including 11 policemen, were injured after last Sunday's intervention to prevent demonstrators reaching the border with Israel to commemorate the Nakba, according to AFP. "Three policemen are still hospitalized and UNOP of them in critical condition after being hit by a car," police stated in a statement.
While Israel has significantly strengthened security in all its borders and repair the damage caused to the fence border with Syria, the Druze village of Majdal Shams located in the Golan Heights (occupied by Israel in the war of 67) has awakened traumatized. Its inhabitants, who are considered "100% Syrians" and have family on the other side of the call shouting hill, were surprised on Sunday to see the central square some 150 Palestinians who had infiltrated from Syria demanding the return of the refugees.
"If we've got it, so can the Arab armies. This is the Third Intifada and we will soon return to our homes in Lod, Haifa and Al Quds. It is our land and recover by force. I want to live and die here. Israel has no right to exist! "exclaimed a Palestinian infiltrated Musa Raid before being returned to Syria in one of the most dramatic days in recent years.
Without doubt, the most violent in over three decades of peaceful Israeli-Syrian border. The Nakba or "Catastrophe" Palestine (referring to the creation of the State of Israel 63 years ago) was stained with blood on Sunday Israel's border with Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and West Bank. 15 dead (other sources speak of ten) to be killed while trying to infiltrate Israel from Syrian territory and Lebanon.
Palestinians in Syria 2,500 refugees arrived in 50 buses on the outskirts of Damascus, got their goal raising their symbolic victory but at a heavy price. Israeli troops shot dead five demonstrators when they broke the border fence. According to Yasir, a resident of Majdal Shams, "if the soldiers had been shot rattled and indiscriminately to the flood that could have ended up in dozens of deaths." An argument that rejects Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has condemned "Israel's criminal practices." In the Lebanese border and almost at the same time, Palestinian refugees sought to do the same.
The armies of Israel and Lebanon accused each other of being responsible for the deaths of between 6 and 10 Palestinians in the Lebanese village of Maroun el Ras also marched into Israel. Lebanon has demanded the international community to condemn Israel "unacceptable attacks against civilians." The Israeli army patrols the area to ensure no infiltration from Syria remains in its territory.
"What has happened is very bad and has nothing to do with the Druze. We sympathize with the Palestinians and yesterday mediate the International Red Cross to leave peacefully and without violence. We help you but it is clear that, Unlike other years, Syria has allowed them to approach and infiltrate.
Assad was interested in causing commotion and attention to be diverted. Do not want the world to continue to focus on the repression of his people, "says the Druze Salaj as a currency area has returned to ministry today. Israel fears that the events on Sunday set a precedent. In the short term, have raised the alert status for fear of reprisal attacks.
Not be ruled out another attempt to infiltrate the border and launch Katyusha Palestinian groups from Lebanon. The Israeli government accuses Assad of sending Palestinian refugees to the border, or at least not prevent it as in previous years for the international spotlight is not focused on the bloody repression against its own people.
On the other hand, has opened a debate about whether the Israeli army was surprised and was not sufficiently prepared. Especially when for months and Palestinian Arab activists announced their plans on Facebook. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Palestinians joined the Internet to a request to start on the Day of the Third Intifada Nakba marches calling for Israel's borders.
"There has been no negligence at the level of intelligence. The army had orders to act with restraint but defending our sovereignty. I regret the deaths but by the actions of our soldiers has prevented the deaths of dozens of people. There is good news allow this violation of your sovereignty, and more than a hundred people crossing our border but the alternative would have been more tragic and more dead, "argued the defense minister, Ehud Barak, who alert" to new and more complicated challenges ".
It is not the first time that Palestinian refugees in Arab countries are approaching the Israeli border while trying to infiltrate another mass. In the case of Syria, they succeeded by breaking the gate. A spontaneous act of the refugees themselves, and allowed an action brought by Asad (Syria) and Hezbollah (Lebanon) or an effect of the Arab Spring? "The Arab revolt played yesterday at the door of Israel.
The nightmare that Israel fears since its creation was fulfilled, namely that the Palestinians simply to leave their refugee camps to the Israeli border and try to get a foot right of return" , Aluf Ben wrote the analyst in the Israeli daily Haaretz. The big question is whether regional revolts, Arab youth mobilization, the determination of the Palestinian refugees, the fight for political survival of leaders like Assad or Mahmoud Ahmadinayad and frustrating stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations end up forming an explosive cocktail that derive in a large-scale escalation. 
While Israel has significantly strengthened security in all its borders and repair the damage caused to the fence border with Syria, the Druze village of Majdal Shams located in the Golan Heights (occupied by Israel in the war of 67) has awakened traumatized. Its inhabitants, who are considered "100% Syrians" and have family on the other side of the call shouting hill, were surprised on Sunday to see the central square some 150 Palestinians who had infiltrated from Syria demanding the return of the refugees.
"If we've got it, so can the Arab armies. This is the Third Intifada and we will soon return to our homes in Lod, Haifa and Al Quds. It is our land and recover by force. I want to live and die here. Israel has no right to exist! "exclaimed a Palestinian infiltrated Musa Raid before being returned to Syria in one of the most dramatic days in recent years.
Without doubt, the most violent in over three decades of peaceful Israeli-Syrian border. The Nakba or "Catastrophe" Palestine (referring to the creation of the State of Israel 63 years ago) was stained with blood on Sunday Israel's border with Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and West Bank. 15 dead (other sources speak of ten) to be killed while trying to infiltrate Israel from Syrian territory and Lebanon.
Palestinians in Syria 2,500 refugees arrived in 50 buses on the outskirts of Damascus, got their goal raising their symbolic victory but at a heavy price. Israeli troops shot dead five demonstrators when they broke the border fence. According to Yasir, a resident of Majdal Shams, "if the soldiers had been shot rattled and indiscriminately to the flood that could have ended up in dozens of deaths." An argument that rejects Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has condemned "Israel's criminal practices." In the Lebanese border and almost at the same time, Palestinian refugees sought to do the same.
The armies of Israel and Lebanon accused each other of being responsible for the deaths of between 6 and 10 Palestinians in the Lebanese village of Maroun el Ras also marched into Israel. Lebanon has demanded the international community to condemn Israel "unacceptable attacks against civilians." The Israeli army patrols the area to ensure no infiltration from Syria remains in its territory.
"What has happened is very bad and has nothing to do with the Druze. We sympathize with the Palestinians and yesterday mediate the International Red Cross to leave peacefully and without violence. We help you but it is clear that, Unlike other years, Syria has allowed them to approach and infiltrate.
Assad was interested in causing commotion and attention to be diverted. Do not want the world to continue to focus on the repression of his people, "says the Druze Salaj as a currency area has returned to ministry today. Israel fears that the events on Sunday set a precedent. In the short term, have raised the alert status for fear of reprisal attacks.
Not be ruled out another attempt to infiltrate the border and launch Katyusha Palestinian groups from Lebanon. The Israeli government accuses Assad of sending Palestinian refugees to the border, or at least not prevent it as in previous years for the international spotlight is not focused on the bloody repression against its own people.
On the other hand, has opened a debate about whether the Israeli army was surprised and was not sufficiently prepared. Especially when for months and Palestinian Arab activists announced their plans on Facebook. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Palestinians joined the Internet to a request to start on the Day of the Third Intifada Nakba marches calling for Israel's borders.
"There has been no negligence at the level of intelligence. The army had orders to act with restraint but defending our sovereignty. I regret the deaths but by the actions of our soldiers has prevented the deaths of dozens of people. There is good news allow this violation of your sovereignty, and more than a hundred people crossing our border but the alternative would have been more tragic and more dead, "argued the defense minister, Ehud Barak, who alert" to new and more complicated challenges ".
It is not the first time that Palestinian refugees in Arab countries are approaching the Israeli border while trying to infiltrate another mass. In the case of Syria, they succeeded by breaking the gate. A spontaneous act of the refugees themselves, and allowed an action brought by Asad (Syria) and Hezbollah (Lebanon) or an effect of the Arab Spring? "The Arab revolt played yesterday at the door of Israel.
The nightmare that Israel fears since its creation was fulfilled, namely that the Palestinians simply to leave their refugee camps to the Israeli border and try to get a foot right of return" , Aluf Ben wrote the analyst in the Israeli daily Haaretz. The big question is whether regional revolts, Arab youth mobilization, the determination of the Palestinian refugees, the fight for political survival of leaders like Assad or Mahmoud Ahmadinayad and frustrating stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations end up forming an explosive cocktail that derive in a large-scale escalation.
- Guardian uses Ben White as source in coverage of "Nakba Day" violence aftermath (16/05/2011)
- Flotilla massacre all over again? Israel kills 8 Nakba demonstrators at borders (15/05/2011)
- "Al Nakba in the Arab Spring: The Egyptian March on Palestine" and related posts (16/05/2011)
- Matthew Kalman's Take on the Nakba (16/05/2011)
- Al Nakba (16/05/2011)
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