APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 15 May 2021. Palestinians hold placards and national flags during a protest and clashes with Israeli forces marking 73th anniversary of Nakba also known as Day of the Catastrophe in 1948, in the West Bank city of in the city of al-Bireh, about 15 kilometres north of Jerusalem.
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“Nakba” or catastrophe came this year with tensions mount between Israel and Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Israel faced a widening conflict on May 14, as deadly violence erupted across the West Bank amid a massive aerial bombardment in Gaza and unprecedented unrest among Arabs and Jews inside the country. The West Bank clashes, described as among the most intense since the second intifada that began in 2000, left 11 people dead from Israeli fire, the Palestinian health ministry said, as overall fatalities from strikes on Gaza rose to 139
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