Two Palestinian men stand on a road barricade armed with stones as fires burn around them during clashes with the Israeli police May 15, at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah, West Bank. Today marks the 'Nakba' or 'catastrophe' which befell Palestinians following Israel's establishment in 1948.

Palestinian protesters infiltrate the Israel-Syria border on May 15, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, Israel. Reportedly at least twelve were killed and several injured when IDF soldiers open fired on protesters attempting to cross the Syria-Israel border adjacent to Majdal Shams in northern Israel. Palestinians today were remonstrating the establishment of Israel in 1948, termed 'Nakba Day.'

A Palestinian protester runs away from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at Qalandiya checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 15. Israeli security forces had been on alert for violence on Sunday, the day Palestinians mark the "Nakba", or catastrophe, of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave their homes.

A man yells for help as Palestinians try to extinguish an accidental fire that swept over a smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on the border with Egypt on April 8, 2011. Tunnels under the town of Rafah are used to transfer all kinds of goods from Egypt into the densely populated Palestinian enclave, even cattle and dismantled vehicles.

Smoke rises after an explosion in a smuggling tunnel in Rafah. The causes of the explosion is not clear.

An anti-government protestor displays bullet shells during clashes in Sanaa,Yemen on Tuesday, April 5. Opposition parties in Yemen have urged the international community, regional powers and human rights groups to help stop the bloodshed in their country.

Anti-government demonstraters carry a wounded protestor to a field hospital during clashes in Sanaa on April 5, as two dissident soldiers and three other people were killed in a firefight between troops and tribesmen close to President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Five people were shot dead and four wounded in the clash near a square where anti-regime protesters have been staging a sit-in for the past two months.

An injured anti-government protestor reacts from pain as he carried by other demonstrators to a field hospital during clashes in Sanaa,Yemen.

Stranded Bangladeshi workers walk along the beach at the port of Benghazi after failing to get on an evacuation ship on Feb. 26 in Benghazi, Libya. Thousands of foreign laborers remain in Libya, stranded for days and unable to get transport out of the country. Fighting has continued around the capitol Tripoli still controlled by Gaddafi forces. The UN who is considering sanctions against Libya over its violent attempts to put down an uprising, estimates more than 1,000 people have died in the 10-day-old revolt.

An Egyptian refugee enters a bus from the window at a refugee camp after crossing into Tunisia to flee the violence in Libya near the border crossing of Ras Jdir, Feb. 26. Thousands of Egyptian refugees scrambled to leave a refugee camp set up by the Tunisian army, as they waited to be transferred to the nearby airport to fly back home.

An Egyptian trying to leave Libya looks through the blankets of a makeshift shelter at Tripoli's airport Feb. 26.

A man with an Egyptian passport carries his bleongings as thousands of Libyan, Egyptian, Tunisian and Indian refugees escape the forces of Muammar Gaddafi at Tas Jedir, Libya, on the border with Tunisia, Feb. 26. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), some 16,000 people had fled over the Libyan border into Tunisia in recent days, as Libyan authorities launched a bloody crackdown on protests against the rule of Muammar Gadhafi.

Egyptians rush to take buses at the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir, after fleeing unrest in Libya, Feb. 26. People in Tunisia and Egypt are driving to the border to help those arriving from Libya, with many hosting strangers in their homes, international aid groups said on Friday. More than 30,000 people have streamed across land borders in response to violence in Libya, mainly Tunisians and Egyptians who had been working in the North African country, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

Chinese citizens wait aboard the "Palermo Grimaldi" ferry at the harbor in Valletta, Malta, Saturday, Feb. 26, after being evacuated from Benghazi, Libya. Tens of thousands of foreigners have been fleeing Libya this week. Turkish and Chinese workers climbed aboard ships by the thousands, Europeans mostly boarded evacuation flights and North Africans have been heading to Libya's borders with Egypt and Tunisia in overcrowded vans.

A Palestinian youth protester lobs a rock at an Israeli soldier standing on the other side of the fence, during the weekly proteste against Israeli-built separation barriers in the West Bank village of Billin, on Jan. 7. The protesters also commemorated the death of a Palestinian protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the village of Billin, who died after inhaling tear gas on Dec. 31. The cause of death is disputed.

Israeli soldiers disperse protesters in Bilin.

Israeli soldiers fire tear-gas grenades at protesters.

A Palestinian woman throws a stone towards Israeli soldiers.