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Wednesday, 16 May, 2001, 14:14 GMT 15:14 UK

In pictures: 'Catastrophe Day' protests

Anger flares once more in the Middle East as thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to protest on Nakba - or "Day of Catastrophe" - the anniversary of the creation of Israel in 1948.

demonstration in Lebanon

Israeli troops stopping drivers at a checkpoint

Nakba protests in Gaza City

Nakba protest in Gaza City

Nakba protests in Gaza City

Palestinian youths pelt Israeli soldiers with stones during clashes at a Jewish settlement

A masked Palestinian man marches with a handgun and the Koran, the Muslim holy book

Palestinian Nakba protests

Eighth grade students mark Nakba in the Israeli Arab village of Arabe, located in northern Israel

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