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<h1 class="title">Palestinians injured during 71st Nakba Day
protests in Gaza</h1>
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<div class="BodyDiv">May 15, 2019<font face="Helvetica"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"> GAZA CITY - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783452">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783452</a></font><br>
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At least 47 Palestinian protesters were shot and injured
with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass
protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba Day or
"catastrophe" near the return camps along the eastern
borders of the besieged Gaza Strip.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal;">Local sources confirmed that
thousands of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, which has
suffered from a 12-year-long Israeli siege, arrived to the
eastern borders via buses to demand their right of return as
refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day
Israel.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal;">Sources said that Israeli forces
opened heavy fire and fired tear-gas bombs towards the
protests.</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal;">Medical sources confirmed that
47 Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition,
while dozens of others suffered from severe tear-gas
suffocation.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal;">Sources added that Israeli
forces and snipers were deployed across the borders.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal;">May 15th 1948, known as the
Nakba or “catastrophe,” re-focuses the world’s attention on
the 750,000 Palestinians displaced during and after the
establishment of the state of Israel, and the more than five
million Palestinians who remain refugees as they wait to
return to their lands in Israel.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal;">It is noteworthy that
Palestinians in Gaza have been participating for over a year
in "The Great March of Return" protests along Gaza's borders,
which began on March 30th 2018, during which Israeli forces <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783451"
target="_blank">killed</a> at least 305 Palestinians,
including 59 children, 10 women, and one elderly, and injured
17,335 others.</div>
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