Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel participated in a symbolic march of return to Hawsha and Al-Kassasir, ethnically cleansed villages near Shefa-Amr (Shfar’am) in the Palestinian territory of 1948 (Israel proper today) raising slogans like “Their Independence Day is Our Catastrophe Day” and “No Backtracking on the Right of Return,” and “Stop the Assault on Gaza” on the 76th anniversary of the Nakba corresponding to Israel’s Independence Day. Palestinians mark the Nakba on 15 May, the day after Israel celebrates its ‘creation’. Carrying Palestinian flags and banners bearing the names o…