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Around 6,200 people gathered in Berlin on Saturday to show their support for Palestinians and mark Nakba Day earlier this week, German police said, though the numbers rose and fell in the course of the day as people joined the demonstration and others left. Officials had initially expected some 2,000 people to commemorate the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, comprising the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. Palestinians mark Nakba Day on May 15 every year. Some 500 officers were deployed a…

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