Israeli Arabs commemorated what they call the “Catastrophe” of the founding of the State of Israel. Some 5,000 Israeli Arabs and Jews rallied to mark the “Nakba” on Thursday in the Galilee, near a site that was an Arab village before the founding of Israel in 1948.
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