AMMAN (Agencies) - Clashes between participants in a rally marking the 63rd anniversary of Nakbeh and Southern Shuneh residents on Sunday left 25 injured, according to the police.
In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the Public Security Department (PSD) said the injured included 11 police officers, and 14 demonstrators and residents.
The PSD said around 800 people converged in the Jordan Valley town of Karameh yesterday.
A group of the protesters attempted to cross the Jordanian-Israeli border and clashed with the Jordan Armed Forces personnel in the area, as a result PSD and Gendarme personnel used tear gas to disperse the protesters, the statement said.
Later, the Gendarme Force intervened to end clashes between 150 demonstrators and Southern Shuneh residents, according to the statement, which added that 11 people who attempted to cross the King Hussein Bridge into Israel were apprehended by security forces and are currently being questioned.
Vehicles and equipment of news teams from satellite channels covering the rally were damaged in the clashes, which took place in the Jordan Valley town of Karameh near the Unknown Soldier Monument, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
Police barred the protesters from marching on Israel’s border, including 200 students, intercepting them a few kilometers from the King Hussein Bridge crossing on the Jordan River, Agence France-Presse reported.
“The people want to liberate Palestine. We are ready to die for Jerusalem. The right of return is sacred,” the students chanted earlier outside Al Kaluti Mosque near the Israeli embassy in Amman, according to AFP.
Waving Jordanian and Palestinian flags, the students sang national songs and carried banners reading: “Palestine is Arab. Together we will return”.
On Friday, around 5,000 people from across the Kingdom, including refugee camps, villages and cities gathered in Karameh to mark the anniversary of the Nakbeh (catastrophe) in 1948 when the state of Israel was created on Palestinian lands.
The rally, organized by the professional associations in coordination with sports and social clubs, was held in the town that witnessed a major battle fought by Palestinian fighters and the Jordanian army against advancing Israeli forces.
16 May 2011
Source: The Jordan Times.
Link: http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=37523.
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