Source: Committee: Refugee 'return rallies' planned for June 5
21st May 2011.
organizers of the protest for the return of Palestinian refugees who were held on 15th May announced that the Palestinian refugees sent back to the Israeli border 5th June this year.
Sunday 15th May Israel forces opened fire on thousands of refugees who were trying to return to their land in Israel. 14 protesters were killed: 10 Palestinian refugees who were trying to cross from Lebanon into Israel and 4 Palestinian refugees who were trying to get the Golan Heights, which is under Israeli occupation.
Hundreds of protesters were injured when Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets at Palestinians who were protesting at the Qalandiya checkpoint separating Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Israeli forces also killed a Palestinian teenager who participated in the protest at the Erez border crossing in northern Gaza.
International Organization for Human Rights Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have demanded an investigation into the murders. Human Rights Watch claims that the Israeli forces for shooting stones by youths responded munition warheads, which predictably led to deadly consequences. Amnesty International has accused Israel of using "excessive force that killed and injured persons who are not a threat to the lives of soldiers or other persons."
protesters 15th May Day marked nakba, the anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and villages during the establishment of the State of Israel 1948th and demanded their right of return.
Committee, which organized the protest for the return of said that this was only the beginning, and urged all Palestinian refugees to fifth June join nonviolent protest march. 5th June, marks the anniversary of the War of 1967. when Israel occupied southern Lebanon, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and West Bank. On that day thousands of refugees protest at the borders with Israel in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, demanding their right to return. The statement added that the protests will continue until the Palestinian refugees do not return all the occupied Palestinian cities. Palestinian lawyers are invited to raise a claim for the killing of protesters 15th svibnja.
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Palestina/Izrael:
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Palestinian factions react to Obama's speech
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Palestinian shot dead near Gaza-Israel border
Israeli forces on Saturday (May 21) in the Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian who claimed that the crawling towards the fence on the border with Israel. Israeli forces on Friday (May 20) opened fire and wounded one of demonstrators in southern Gaza.
Syria
Activist: 44 killed Friday in Syria protest
Security forces killed 44 people on Friday during anti-regime protests which swept Syria, with most of the casualties in the western province of Idlib and the central city of Homs, a human right activist told AFP on Saturday. "Syrian authorities are continuing to use excessive force and live ammunition to face popular protests in various regions throughout the country," said Ammar Qurabi, head of the National Organisation for Human Rights, who was reached by telephone. Qurabi said 26 people were killed on Friday in the province of Idlib and 13 in Homs. Two people were also killed in the eastern town of Deir Ezzor, one in Daraya, a suburb of the capital Damascus, one in the coastal city of Latakia and one in central Hama. The authoritarian government has responded to the protests that have swept Syria since March 15 with a brutal crackdown that has left at least 850 people dead and hundreds injured, according to rights groups. Thousands have been arrested.
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