Israeli forces wound dozens of Palestinians at Nakba Day marches

At least 29 Palestinians injured as they marched across the West Bank to mark Nakba Day and protest Israeli occupation.

Ramallah and Beit El, Occupied West Bank – Israeli forces wounded dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during protests to mark the Nakba, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes to make way for the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Protesters commemorating the 73rd anniversary of Nakba, or “Catastrophe”, Day on Saturday across the West Bank also chanted slogans against Israel’s ongoing aerial bombardment in Gaza, the threat of forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers, and repeated Israeli raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site. The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli forces injured at least 29 Palestinians on Saturday, with 17 of them shot by live fire.