From the BBC "Palestinians are feeling emboldened and inspired":
"We will fight and fight until the Israelis leave this land. It belongs to us and we will liberate it," cried a Palestinian boy in his teens in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday.
Palestinians are feeling emboldened and inspired.
"The Israelis are on the back foot. The Arab Spring has given us momentum," says Husam Zomlot, a senior official with the Palestinian Fatah Party.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated over the weekend from Gaza to the Golan Heights. They were marking the Nakba.
In Arabic it means "Catastrophe" - the moment, 63 years ago, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost their homes amid the fighting after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Counting their descendents, the United Nations says there now around five million Palestinians classed as refugees.
These were the biggest Nakba day demonstrations for years. In Ramallah, I watched as more than 1,000 protesters marched down the dusty dual carriageway towards Qalandia, the main Israeli checkpoint dividing the West Bank from Jerusalem. more
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