Incidents in Israel in memory of the Catastrophe
A massive mobilization of Palestinians and unprecedented violence on Sunday left at least 21 dead and 130 wounded in Gaza and the West Bank, on the border between Lebanon and Israel, and the Golan Heights, during the commemoration of "Al-Nakba" ("The Catastrophe"). That is called the period beginning in 1948 with the exodus of 700 000 Palestinian inhabitants of the land that later formed the State of Israel. This is one of the most serious border incidents between the two countries since the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.
In the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, hundreds of protesters gathered at the point of access to Israel to demand the return of the 1967 borders before the Six Day War. "I have ordered the army to act with utmost restraint to avoid any infiltration of our borders," said the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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