Majdal Shams

Eyewitness: Golan Heights demonstrators just wanted to return home

Adri Nieuwhof
21 July 2011
The bloodbath in the occupied Golan Heights on Nakba Day could have been worse if it wasn’t for a medical team led by Taiseer Maray.

Eyewitness interview: Israel's "blood harvest" in occupied Golan

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
6 June 2011
Hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees marched yesterday from Syrian-controlled territory to the occupied Golan Heights to mark Naksa Day. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours interviews Salman Fakhreddin, a rights activist in the Golan Heights, on the significance of yesterday’s march.

If Arabs were Germans and Israel's frontiers were the Berlin Wall

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 00:20

Those marching to Israeli-controlled frontiers of Palestine should be seen in the same light as Germans who tore down the Berlin Wall.

Interview: Planning the Nakba Day movement in Lebanon

Max Blumenthal
5 June 2011
In an interview with The Electronic Intifada contributor Max Blumenthal, agronomist and Palestinian rights activist Rami Zurayk described how 150 representatives of Palestinian factions and refugee groups gathered to wrangle over the nascent May 15 movement’s language and long-term strategy.

Two brand-new videos from Palestinian march of return at Majdal Shams

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 02:35

More video footage has emerged showing scenes of Israeli violence against Palestinian refugees crossing from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, 15 May. On Nakba day, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and live ammunition at a mass march of Palestinian refugees who managed to walk across the militarized area.

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