Israeli defense officials have been systematically sealing off archival files about the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 Nakba, Haaretz Israeli daily revealed. A secretive security department in the defense ministry has overseen the ongoing project, taking historic files and putting them away in vaults. In some cases, historians cited ...
Thousands of Palestinians flocked after Friday Prayers to the Strip’s border with the Zionist settlements to protest against the Israeli blockade and to highlight the right to return to the occupied territories. Local reports pointed out that 16 Palestinians were injured by the Israeli gunfire.