Days of Palestine, Haifa -Hundreds of Palestinians marked on Saturday 68th Palestinian Nakba Day as they organised ‘March of Return’ in occupied Palestinian city of Haifa.
The march was organised in a site of a Palestinian village destroyed after its indigenous Palestinian residents were savagely massacred and some of them forced out by the Israeli Zionists in 1948.
Organisers of the march said that it was held to highlight the internationally-recognised right of Palestinians, forced out of their homes, to return back.
Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset, activists and locals made their way to the destroyed village of Al-Tira in the outskirts of Haifa.
The village was almost completely destroyed with the exception of few buildings which today remain either vacant or occupied by Jewish Israelis.
Member of Knesset and head of the Arab Joint List Ayman Odeh addressed the crowd: “The large number of you confirms that the Nakba is a story of the past that also lives on as a story of the future, until a Palestinian state is established and we have achieved the rights of Palestinian refugees.”
Thousands of the Palestinians were slaughtered by the Israeli Zionist gangs, protected by the British army in 1948. Some 750,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes and lands in the same year and were scattered across the world.
Today, there are more than five million Palestinian refugees who remain displaced from their original homes and villages following the mass expulsion that occurred almost 70 years ago.
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