The Day · New London, Connecticut · 16 May 2008
CP-2008-001
Palestinians mourn Israel’s anniversary as the ‘Nakba’
Black-clad marchers, moments of silence mark the ‘catastrophe’
Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
"Across Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinians on Thursday mourned their exodus from the..." The report notes that "in the Gaza Strip, intra-Palestinian disputes marred Nakba protests."
Context added by this archive
Ten years after the fiftieth anniversary, still in quotation marks, twice in one headline stack.
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"Palestinians mourn Israel’s anniversary as the ‘Nakba’," The Day, 16 May 2008. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2008-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2008-001
Elsewhere in the archive
- Remembering the Nakba on Israel’s 60th anniversaryWisconsin State Journal · 16 May 2008 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
- The Fellaheen of PalestineThe Day · 13 March 1891 · the same newspaper
- Israel-Palestinian coverage is a matter of perceptionThe Miami Herald · 18 May 2008 · the same year
- Israel rejects calls for a truceThe York Dispatch · 31 December 2008 · the same year
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