A Fatah official said that Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees will march Sunday along the country’s border with Israel on the 44th anniversary of the Six Day War, during which Israel seized its Arab eastern sector.
“The march will be peaceful and will not have a military [aspect] that might confuse the Lebanese state,” Fatah commander in Lebanon Mounir Maqdah, based in the refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, told the Free Lebanon radio station on Thursday.
“Our program is to crawl back to Palestine…we do not want to own land in any other Arab country,” he added.
He also called on UNIFIL troops to “protect the Sunday rally,” adding that “Syria and the [Lebanese] Future Movement should also support the march.”
The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their promised state, but Israel, which annexed it in a move not recognized by the international community, lays claim to the entire city as its “eternal, indivisible capital.”
Israeli troops shot dead 12 people on May 15 and wounded hundreds more as Palestinians marking the “nakba” marched on Israel’s borders with Gaza as well as Lebanon and Syria. These regions are home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven out in 1948.
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