Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Fatah, Hamas to mark Nakba in joint event

GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 2 May -- For the first time in five years, rival parties Fatah and Hamas will form a joint committee to prepare commemoration events for Nakba Memorial Day, which remembers the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 ... Commemoration of the expulsion has been banned by law in Israel, which celebrates Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday. PLO Executive Committee member and head of the refugees’ affairs department Zakariyya Al-Agha called the joint planning of Nakba Day events "a historic decision."
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