Friday, May 20, 2011

Amnesty calls for investigation into Nakba Day deaths

JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 18 Mar -- A "full, impartial and independent investigation" must be launched into the Israeli military’s use of force against Palestinians and Syrian Druze during Sunday protests which saw 13 killed, international rights group Amnesty International said ... In its call for an investigation, Amnesty criticized Israel for its characterization of the events marking the Palestinian Nakba - the "catastrophe" of 1948 - "as 'riots' and attempts to 'infiltrate' into Israel illegally, and in several of the protests, demonstrators threw rocks towards Israeli troops," noting that in no accounts have Israeli officials "claimed that any protesters fired on Israeli troops.
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