\r\n\tThousands of Palestinian citizens of 'Israel' participated in the annual "March of Return" on Thursday afternoon near Bedouin towns in the Negev (Naqab) in southern Israel, commemorating the 1948 Nakba.
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\r\n\tDemonstrators waved Palestinian flags and held banners emblazoned with support for the right to return for Palestinian refugees abroad and Palestinians internally displaced from their villages in Israel, as they made their way across the Negev in the dry afternoon heat.
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\r\n\tThe March of Return is to comemorate the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that wrought the state of Israel.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tThe official commemoration of the Nakba is held on May 15 and is observed by millions of Palestinians and rights activists around the world.
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\r\n\tThe aim of the march was to highlight the internationally-recognized right of Palestinians who remain refugees or internally displaced to return to their homes and villages in Israel, a right which has been enshrined in international law following the adoption of United Nations Resolution 194.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2016-05-14 13:01:37","content_date_finish":"2016-05-14 13:01:37","content_date_register":"2016-05-14 13:01:37","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"126938","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1845581324","attach_date_register":"2016-05-14 13:01:42","attach_id":"133906","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"655","attach_img_height":"430","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"167","visit_date_last":"2025-05-12 19:14:21","attach_title":"Palestinians stage annual march of return","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]