Nakba, Refugees, and R.O.R.: CNN reporting On Nakba Day: The Black Baloons Day

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Posted on November 6, 2008

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Palestinians mark the 'Nakba'

Bush is the first US president to address
the Israeli Knesset [AFP]

Palestinians have held protests across the occupied territories to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", when they were uprooted from their homes by the establishment of Israel.

In the West Bank on Thursday, rallies and sirens commemorated the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 war.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, speaking from Ramallah, called for an end to occupation and settlement building.

"It's time for the occupation to leave our land ... and for the 'catastrophe' to come to an end," Abbas said in a televised speech.

"Our Palestinian people have carried in pain the memory, and hope to return to their homeland."

Black balloons were released by Palestinians in the West Bank and by Palestinian refugees in other areas of the world to mark the day. In the West Bank 21,195 balloons were released - one for every day of the Nakba.

Checkpoint clash

Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera's correspondent in the West Bank, reported that there were clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers manning the Qalandiya checkpoint on Thursday.

"[The soldiers] responded to stones being thrown in their direction by firing rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas," she reported.

The youths had marched from Ramallah to the checkpoint to commemorate the 60 years of dispossession.

"It was tense, but now the clashes have ended. [The checkpoint] is a permanent friction point between Palestinians and the Israeli occupation.

"It represents the ongoing occupation or expropriation of Palestinian land through the separation wall, which blocks their hope of having a contiguous and viable state any time in the future."

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