Several injured in Jordan Nakba protest

Mon May 16, 2011

A number of people have been reportedly injured as Jordanian police clashed with demonstrators trying to approach Jordan's border with the West Bank.

Police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse the protesters, some of whom tried to pick up the canisters and hurl them back towards the police. In the ensuing clashes, a number of people were injured, AP reported.

The protests were held on Sunday in solidarity with the Palestinians to mark the anniversary of the 1948 occupation of Palestine by Israeli forces.

Palestinians refer to May 15, 1948, as the “Nakba” or catastrophe in British-mandate Palestine.

More than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland to the West Bank and Gaza Strip and other countries in the world.

Thousands of Jordanian protesters rallied to show support for Palestinian refugees' right to return to their homes forcefully taken by Israeli occupying regime back in 1948.

Waving Palestinian flags, protesters gathered at the Al-Karameh border crossing, a few hundred meters from the border, and chanted slogans in favor of the Palestinians.

However, they were barred from reaching the crossing point on the Jordan River for a second day in a row.

Meanwhile, Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three border crossings on Sunday leaving at least 15 people dead and dozens more wounded, reports say.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180107.html.