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Nakba Rally Ends with Riot

By Sharon Roffe-Ofir (Ynet)

posted on 05/09/08

While Israel was busy celebrating its 60 years of independence, Israeli Arabs chose to mark the 60th year of the Nakba in a mass rally attended by all Arab Knesset members, as well as public figures such as the Head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Ra’ad Salah, and Shawki Khatib, Head of Higher Arab Monitoring Committee.

The march, traditionally marking the expulsion of Palestinian refugees from their land during the War of Independence, led protestors from Nazareth towards the deserted ruins of the village of Suffurriye—today’s Zippori.

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