The 'Palestinians' are observing the Gregorian date of the creation of the State of Israel with their usual behavior: Riots. Here's a rundown.
Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah for a major rally at the Martyr Yasser Arafat Square. The protesters raised black banners and Palestinian flags to mark the event. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was in attendance.
Throughout the West Bank, the PA suspended work and studies to allow the participation of as many Palestinians as possible in the protests and rallies.
Hundreds of Palestinians threw stones and firebombs at Betunia near the Ofer Prison and IDF and police forces responded with tear gas and other crowd dispersal means. A number of Palestinians were reported injured.
At the Kalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, some 300 Palestinians protested, a number of whom clashed with security forces. At least 20 Palestinians were injured in the incident.
In east Jerusalem's Isawiya neighborhood, police arrested four people on suspicion of throwing stones. In that incident, children as young as five years old were seen participating in the violence against security forces.
In the Gaza Strip, representatives of Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian political factions held a joint rally to mark Nakba Day. The organizers had called on Palestinians to gather in the center of Gaza City and march toward UN headquarters in the city.
Earlier Tuesday morning, Palestinians threw stones at Israelis praying at Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem. Police dispersed the attackers. There were no injuries in the attack.
At a checkpoint near the Jewish settlement in Hebron, Palestinians hurled stones at security forces. IDF soldiers and Border Police dispersed the riots. No damages or injuries were reported.
About 20 worshipers visiting Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem were briefly trapped inside the complex under a hail of stones from dozens of Palestinian protesters, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Border Police from Jerusalem arrived to protect the site and Palestinian police dispersed protesters on the Palestinian side of the area.
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In Hamas-run Gaza, some 3,000 Palestinians marched to the local U.N. office. They carried banners reading “We shall return” and listing the names of their original villages. Haniyeh and several Hamas security officials ran a two-kilometer (1.5 mile) race that ended at the Palestinian parliament.
In Ramallah, where the main protest was planned, thousands of Palestinians marched from Yasser Arafat’s tomb to the Palestinain Authority government center in the city, carrying Palestinian flags and posters. Some read: “Return is our right and our destiny.”
An NGO representing Palestinian communities in Israel called on Palestinians to skip work and visit the sites of former villages.
In Tel Aviv, Arab MK Hanin Zoabi is scheduled to visit the offices of the Israeli-Palestinian NGO Zochrot Tuesday evening for a Nakba Day event.
Zoabi, whose controversial record includes remarks perceived as anti-Israel and an arrest for traveling on the Gaza aid flotilla ship Mavi Marmara in 2010, is often met at events by right-wing protesters.
Earlier in the day a rocket was fired from Gaza into an open area in the Sha’ar Hanegev region. No injuries or damage were reported. Overnight, Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails at troops in Hebron.
But surely when the 'Palestinians' accept a 'two-state solution,' there won't be any more riots marking the founding of the State of Israel.
If the 'Palestinians' get their way, the Kotel (Western Wall) may not look so quiet later on Tuesday as it appears below.
Internet organizers are continuing efforts to bring Palestinians to the streets on Tuesday, the last day in a three-day “Naksa Day” commemoration that began on Friday and continued on Sunday.
The Facebook group “Countdown to the Third Palestinian Intifada” – which has amassed 379,000 followers, or “likes” – has designated Tuesday as the “Day of Allegiance to Jerusalem” and called on supporters to march on the capital’s Al-Aksa Mosque in a display of loyalty to the city.
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While police will be on high alert in Jerusalem, both Arab and left-wing activists said they were unaware of any protests planned in the capital on Tuesday, despite Internet plans to march on the Aksa Mosque.
Activists had similar plans on Sunday, but marchers trying to enter Jerusalem from the Kalandiya checkpoint were turned back just meters past the checkpoint, and the march degenerated into skirmishes between approximately 250 Palestinians and the army along the Jerusalem-Ramallah highway.
In the clashes, one policeman and 40 demonstrators were wounded.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby dismissed the chances of a march from Kalandiya successfully reaching the capital, on Tuesday or any day.
“We have the army in front of us, and the army certainly knows how to deal with this situation,” he said on Monday. “So far, [the Naksa demonstrations] haven’t caught on in Jerusalem. If they do develop here, we will do everything necessary to contain it.”
Maybe the 'Palestinians' can't get any 'real Palestinians' to show up for a demonstration in Jerusalem, because all the 'real Palestinians' are figuring out how to remain Israeli citizens if - God forbid - there is a 'Palestinian state.' Heh.
Israel's Channel 2 is reporting that most of the 'protesters' at the Qalandia checkpoint on Sunday afternoon are 'left-wing activists' and not 'real Palestinians.'
'Real Palestinians' have better things to do with their time.
Heh.
I am about to board a plane (by the time you see this, I will have taken off). I will have a little less than two hours in London to connect, but other than that, it may be a few hours before you hear from me.
Here's video of a violent riot in Qalandia on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Sunday morning.
Let's go to the videotape.
Non-violent?
UPDATE 3:54 PM
Israel Radio just interviewed a correspondent there who said that there are hundreds of 'Palestinians' standing around and every so often they charge the checkpoint.
Police investigation exonerates officers whose tear gas canister hit US student
A police investigation has exonerated the border police officers who fired a tear gas canister that hit an American art student during a demonstration in May. The student, Emily Henchowitz, lost an eye in the incident.
The incident took place on May 31, when Emily Henochowicz, a student at Cooper Union College in New York, took part in a small protest against the Israel Defense Forces raid on the Turkish flotilla to Gaza that morning.
Video footage of the incident shows Henochowicz, who carried a Turkish flag, injured from a tear gas grenade. She lost one of her eyes, and suffered several other fractures. Henochowicz has since returned to the United States to complete her studies.
Following the incident, Henochowicz's family filed a complaint to the Judea and Samaria district police which is responsible for investigating the operational activity of the Border Police in the West Bank. The family argued the policeman shot the canister directly at the student, against regulations.
Henochowicz submitted her testimony, as did the Border Police batallion commander, company commander and the officer who fired the canister. The Border Police officers claimed the gas canister only hit Henochowicz after it ricocheted off a barricade. The police investigators claimed this version of events is backed by video footage of the incident. The police case has been transferred to the central district attorney to decide whether charges will be filed.
Let's go to the videotape.
The district attorney may still decide to file charges against the police officers.
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The 'Palestinians' are observing the Gregorian date of the creation of the State of Israel with their usual behavior: Riots. Here's a rundown. 
