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At least four members of the Palestinian Druze community are in jail for rejecting military service.

Palestinians in Israel are protesting draft legislation which would make national service mandatory, despite the state’s system of discrimination against the community.

As nationalist parties and festivals were held throughout Israel to mark the country’s Independence Day on 10 May, several thousand Palestinians and their supporters held a commemoration of their own in the Galilee, demanding the right to return to their ancestral villages and homes.