Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement three generations
ago with mixed emotions. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or
were forced from their villages during the war that established the
Jewish state in 1948, an event they commemorate every year as their
"Nakba," or catastrophe. Clashes between Palestinian protesters and
Israeli troops erupted outside Ofer prison on the West Bank. Tear gas
canisters and water cannon were deployed against protesters throwing
stones.