Palestinians to Mark Nakba Day 69th Anniversary Worldwide
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Palestinians across the world are set to mark the 69th anniversary of the Nakba Day [the Day of Catastrophe], when hundreds of their fellow Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homeland by "Israelis."
The Nakba Day is officially marked every year on May 15, one day after the Zionist apartheid regime came into existence in 1948.
Some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their lands in 1948 and were scattered across refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Palestine's neighboring countries. Now, over five million Palestinian refugees are estimated to be still displaced.
The Zionist entity passed controversial legislation, known as the Nakba Law, in 2011, which authorized the regime's finance minister to cut the budget of institutions that mark the Nakba Day.
Earlier this week, the Zionist right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party proposed amendments to the law that call for imposing severe sanctions on universities, colleges and academic institutions that allow the Nakba Day commemoration.
Since Tuesday, a Palestinian flag has been flying over the City Hall in the Irish capital, Dublin, to draw attention to years of the ‘Israeli' occupation of Palestinian territory ahead of the Nakba Day.
The council said the move was "as a gesture of our solidarity with the people of Palestine living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza... and with the... displaced Palestinians denied the right of return to their homeland."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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