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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Ramallah marks 70 years to ‘nakba’ with 70-second siren
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah mark the 70th anniversary of their mass displacement in Israel’s Independence War with a 70-second siren.
People stand at attention and traffic stops in parts of the city Tuesday to mark the moment, though in some areas the sirens appear to malfunction and can barely be heard.
Palestinians mark May 15 as their “nakba,” or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people either fled or were expelled from their homes in 1948-9.
— AP
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