Yesterday, Sunday, the Palestinians commemorated the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, where dozens were injured in confrontations with the occupation forces in the West Bank and the Israeli police’s assault on Arab students at Tel Aviv University, a memory that the late colleague Shireen Abu Aqleh reported on.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 45 Palestinians were injured during clashes that erupted between Palestinian youth protesting on the occasion of the Nakba Day and the Israeli occupation forces at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh, opposite the "Beit El" settlement;
The young men threw stones at the occupation soldiers, placed obstacles in the road, and set fire to rubber tires.
Similar confrontations erupted west of the city of Tulkarm (north) and in the vicinity of Al-Quds University in the town of Abu Dis, east of the city.
The official Palestinian News Agency said that dozens of students from Kadoorie Universities in Tulkarm and Al-Quds Universities in Abu Dis suffocated as a result of inhaling tear gas, and were treated in the field.
In Tel Aviv, the Israeli police forces, with the participation of members of the extreme right, attacked Palestinian students during an event commemorating the Nakba at Tel Aviv University.
Video clips showed extremist Israeli students assaulting Palestinian students, under the strict protection of the occupation police forces, who attacked Palestinian students, beat and pushed a number of them, and arrested others.
The Palestinians in Ramallah held a central festival in "Manara Square" on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, under the slogan "Enough of 74 years of injustice and double standards."
The Palestinian community commemorated at the headquarters of the Palestinian embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, the seventy-fourth anniversary of the Nakba. Representatives of the embassy and the Palestinian community in Ankara delivered speeches in which they stressed the continuation of the Palestinian struggle in the face of the Israeli occupation and adherence to the constants of Palestinian national rights.
The event also witnessed memorial speeches for colleague Shireen Abu Aqleh, who was assassinated by the Israeli forces while performing her work in Jenin camp.
On May 15 of each year, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba with marches and vigils.
The term al-Nakba refers to the process of displacement of Palestinians from their lands by armed Zionist gangs in 1948.
About 800,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their homes - in that year that witnessed the founding of Israel - to escape massacres committed by Zionist gangs, which led to the killing of about 15,000 Palestinians, according to a Palestinian government report.