RAMALLAH, May 15, 2008, (WAFA)-A national day of mourning will be held on Thursday across the Palestinian territories and in exile to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (cataclysm).

2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (cataclysm). In human terms, that year saw the mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages.

The High National Committee for Commemorating the Nakba and the subsidiary committee of the Al-Bireh and Ramallah would sit a day camp near the Presidential HQ in Ramallah that will include national activities, symposiums, cultural and art exhibitions and oral narration from refugees expelled from their homeland.

Omer A’saf, a member of the committee said that “there will be live television broadcasts of protests from the cities of Ramallah, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Paris in addition to other activities including a lecture on ‘ Palestine… history and geography’, a gallery, and documentaries and the distributing of pamphlets for the youths and children.”