PhotoBlog - nakba

15
May
2013
12:43pm, EDT
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli police on Nakba Day
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A Palestinian sets fire to a tire during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba day or "Day of Catastrophe" on May 15, in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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A mounted Israeli policeman tries to disperse Palestinian protesters waving their national flag during clashes as demonstrators gathered outside Damascus gate in Jerusalem on May 15, to mark the 65th Nakba or "Day of Catastrophe"
Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
A Palestinian protestor holds a Molotov cocktail and a lighter, ready to be used against Israeli security forces during clashes to mark Nakba Day near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 15. Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and at East Jerusalem on Wednesday during demonstrations to mark 65 years since what they call the Nakba (Catastrophe) when Israel's creation caused many to lose their homes and become refugees.
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Palestinian protesters are stopped by Israeli soldiers during clashes after a rally marking Nakba Day in the Beit Omar village, north the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 15. Nakba Day is the annual day of commemoration of the displacement of Palestinians after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
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Clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces on Nakba Day, a day when Palestinians commemorate the loss of their homes in the 1948 war that resulted in the creation of Israel. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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"A Palestinian protestor holds a Molotov cocktail and a lighter, ready to be used against Israeli security forces during clashes to mark Nakba Day near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 15" These go with the territory of followers of Islamic cult. When Muslims form than five percent in a place down …
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15
May
2012
8:36am, EDT
Palestinians clash with Israeli police during Nakba protests
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Palestinian women scuffle with Israeli policemen as they try to stop them from arresting a relative in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on May 15, 2012, as Palestinians took to the streets to mark Nakba day.
Palestinians held a series of events and protests Tuesday to mark the Nakba ("catastrophe") of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave their homes.
On Monday, a Palestinian official said a deal had been reached with Israel to end a weeks-long high-profile hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Read an analysis of the background to the hunger strikes by NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin.
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A Palestinian suspected of throwing stones is detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya May 15, 2012.
Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
A boy holds up a door key as Palestinians take part in a rally marking Nakba in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 15, 2012.
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A Palestinian youth shoots fireworks at Israeli policemen in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on May 15, 2012.
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Israeli riot policemen arrest a Palestinian boy in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on May 15, 2012.
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The head of Gaza's Hamas government, Ismail Haniya (blue polo shirt), takes part in a marathon in Gaza City on May 15, 2012 to mark Nakba day.

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Jerusalem is the Capital of the Jewish State. Jerusalem pre-dates Islam, Christianity, Alexander and Caesar. The Arabs had a chance for peace in 1948. They gambled, and they lost. Now, they need to try peace for a change. Israel abandoned Gaza. "Land for Peace".
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17
May
2011
8:16am, EDT
Israeli policeman goes undercover as Palestinian woman
Baz Ratner / Reuters
An undercover Israeli policeman dressed as a Palestinian woman opens a car door after detaining a Palestinian protester during clashes in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem on May 15. Israeli security forces had been on alert for violence on Sunday, the day Palestinians mourn 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.
Photographer Baz Ratner today described the scene above, which he witnessed on Sunday:

During events held by Palestinians to mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on Sunday May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700, 000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948, I was covering a clash between Israeli security forces and Palestinian youths in the Shuafat refugee camp, a neighbourhood of East Jerusalem surrounded by the controversial Israeli barrier. Both sides were standing at a distance from each other when I arrived and the youths were throwing stones towards the police. The police retaliated by firing rubber bullets and tear gas, a common occurrence during clashes.

After a few hours the police charged towards the protesters who were running away. I saw that part of the police were running down an alley. Due to my past experience in these types of situations I followed them sensing that something out of the ordinary may occur. When I reached a point in the alley I saw riot police surrounding a group of about ten masked men and a woman, all armed with pistols, detaining a few Palestinians. It was the second time that I witnessed undercover police detaining Palestinians but the first time I've ever seen an undercover policeman wearing woman's clothes. The 'woman' was pushed into the car and very quickly all of the undercover policemen were rushed into other civilian cars and the detained Palestinians were left to the riot police.

There are a few undercover police units who infiltrate Israeli-Arab and Palestinian communities by dressing up and acting as Palestinians. Knowing Arabic well and Arab customs, they use the surprise element to achieve arrests. Some Druze and Jewish and even some Arabs are experts in this field.

Baz Ratner / Reuters
In a separate incident, undercover Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian suspected of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya on May 15.
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Just to clue the reporter in...you are either misrepresenting or rewriting history sir. A war was not used to bring about the state of Israel. The United Nations voted and approved the partitioning of the land known as Palestine into the state of Palestine and Israel. Refusing to accept the UN decl …
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16
May
2011
6:42am, EDT
Ariel Schalit / AP
Israeli soldiers fix the border fence between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on May 16. Mobilized by calls on Facebook, thousands of Arab protesters marched on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations, sparking clashes that left 15 people dead in an annual Palestinian mourning ritual marking the anniversary of Israel's birth.
Israel's 'nightmare scenario'
Aluf Benn, editor-at-large of Israel's Haaretz newspaper, writing about events on Israel's borders:

This calm was disturbed yesterday and the nightmare scenario Israel has feared since its inception became real - that Palestinian refugees would simply start walking from their camps toward the border and would try to exercise their "right of return." Israel prepared for demonstrations of Nakba Day in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, in the Galilee and the Triangle, but instead it was the Palestinian diaspora that tried to climb its fences. More than an intelligence lapse, the situation highlighted the limits of power. It is impossible to control the whole arena and spread forces everywhere. There is always a spot that remains unprotected and one's rival can exploit it.

Read more about yesterday's protests and about developments in the situation today.
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14
May
2011
7:34pm, EDT
Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
A Palestinian boy looks at an Israeli border police officer pointing his weapon during brief clashes between Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 14. Palestinians will mark "Nakba Day" (catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948.
Tension in the West Bank as Palestinians mark Nakba Day
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Israel's 'nightmare scenario'

Tension in the West Bank as Palestinians mark Nakba Day