Israeli forces wounded dozens of Palestinians in Nakba Day marches Gaza News

Ramallah and Beit El, occupied West Bank – Israeli forces wounded dozens of Palestinians in protests marking the Nakba in the occupied West Bank when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes in 1948 to pave the way for the establishment of the state of Israel.

Protesters celebrating Nakba’s 73rd birthday or “Disaster” also staged protests across the West Bank on Saturday constant aerial bombardment In Gaza, Palestinians were forced to expel Palestinians in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers, and Israeli attacks were repeated in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli forces wounded at least 29 Palestinians on Saturday, 17 of whom were shot dead.

However, the level of violence was lower than at least on Friday 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 500 wounded by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

In Ramallah, the Nakba sirens sounded at noon on Saturday and hundreds of Palestinians gathered waving black flags adorned with Palestinian flags and keys, representing their right to expropriation and return.

Demonstrators opposed Israeli forces in Hebron, Ramallah and the northern cities of Nablus and Qalqilya.

The dark mood prevailed as Palestinian crowds of all ages, political convictions and origins marched towards Israeli military control, near the illegal settlement of Beit El, 3.5 km (2 miles) from central Ramallah, saying: “With our blood and our we will restore your soul to Al-Aqsa. “

Unlike in previous years, Palestinian police stationed at various points along the route made no attempt to stop the march.

In the next few hours, several Palestinian protesters turned on tires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers, occasionally responding with stun grenades and balls of tear gas canisters.

Several ambulances took injured protesters to the hospital.

Engineer Muhammad Shuabaki Ramallah said he had joined the march with Palestinians in Gaza and the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem, which is undergoing forced deportations.

“We don’t want war, but we have to fight for our rights and we can’t keep quiet about people being thrown out of Sheikh Jarrah and the dead in Gaza,” Shuabaki told Al Jazeera.

There were major protests on Saturday in support of Palestinians in the Middle East, several European countries and Australia.

Israel has fired hundreds of missiles and artillery into the besieged Gaza Strip since Monday, and Hamas and other Palestinian groups have fired nearly 2,000 rockets at Israel from Gaza.

At least 140 Palestinians, including 39 children, have been killed on the Gaza Strip since Monday and about 950 others have been injured. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have killed at least 13 Palestinians.

At least nine people have been killed in Israel as a result of a rocket from Palestine, and a new death was reported in Ramat Gan on Saturday.

Israeli military attacks in Gaza continued on Saturday morning to kill 10 Palestinians – at least eight of them children – after bombing a Shati refugee camp near Gaza City.

Saturday afternoon, Israeli missile he destroyed the high-rise building housing agencies and media offices in Gaza City include the Al Jazeera Media Network and The Associated Press news agency.

The latest escalation of violence was the result of tensions in East Jerusalem over the now-delayed trial. forced expulsion Several Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah homes.

Tensions in East Jerusalem also spread to the Al-Aqsa mosque complex, where Israeli forces searched for three days in a row in the last week of Ramadan, throwing tear gas and stunning grenades at worshipers inside the mosque and wounding hundreds.

On Saturday in protest in Beit El, Suhad Nasser and his sister Samira Nakba were adorned with day T-shirts and waved Palestinian flags in traditional Palestinian kaffiyeh or scarves.

“Our family is originally from Israel’s Lod, and in 1948 they were forced to flee their homes and now we see Palestinians coming out of their homes again and that is a very difficult point for us,” Suhad said.