Monday, May 16, 2011

Palestinian President Gore says 'not in vain'

The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said today in a televised speech to mark the Day of the Nakba (Catastrophe), the "blood shed for freedom of the Palestinians will not be in vain." "The will of the people is stronger than the power of oppressive forces," he said in a speech on Palestinian television, referring to at least fifteen people were killed in protests the day that commemorates the exile and the loss of land the creation in 1948 of the State of Israel.

"Their blood has been shed in vain, he added, but for the freedom of our people and their rights." At least fifteen people were killed and over 210 injured, according to the latest toll, in countless demonstrations that took place in Gaza, West Bank, Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli army shot suppressed protests when protesters, mostly Palestinian refugee camps, they approached the border, crossed or attacked with stones at the soldiers.

In Gaza, one person was killed and 70 wounded in the West Bank and reported more than fifty injured, most in step Qalandiyah, between Jerusalem and Ramallah. At least 10 other people were killed and 112 wounded in southern Lebanon, and the rest, four dead and 10 wounded 20, in a raid from Syria to the Golan Heights of dozens of refugees.

Abbas stressed that the large participation in the protests shows that "the determination of the Palestinian people to achieve freedom."

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