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Return To Palestine June 5th AD The Path of Return
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Marching to mark The Setback For 44 years, the fifth of June has marked the day of An-Naksa – or The Setback. On this day, Palestinians and the world remember the 1967 War when Israel pre-emptively attacked its neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Their quick, decisive victory inspired many Israelis to claim divine providence, but on the ground, the 19-year old state had expanded it’s territory following six days of battle to include a military occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, Syria’s Golan Heights, and formerly half-Jordanian Jerusalem. The conflict created an estimate of 940,000 displaced persons according to PASSIA’s 2008 Survey of Palestinian Refugees and IDPs. 1967 became the beginning, too, of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip’s millions of Palestinians – where to this day they impose a regime of checkpoints, legal and beaurcratic discrimination, costly price controls, and daily infringement on basic human rights and dignity. Major demonstrations on May 15 - Nakba Day- showed how Palestinians within the occupied territories as well as Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria are devoted to return to their homeland. Fourteen people were killed during this year’s Nakba demonstrations and a significant number was injured from rubber and live bullets as well as from noxious tear gas fumes and projectile cannisters fired directly, and illegally, at people. With the Arab Spring to the east and north, non-violent resistance demonstrations in villages within the oPt are becoming more common as a mean of uprising against the injustice of the Israeli occupation. In most cases, Israeli military forces are responding to the marching and chanting through the use of tear gas, sound grenades, Skunk and arrests.
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