Some 25 Palestinians were injured by what appeared to be tear gas fired by Israel near Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, a health official said. Adham Abu Salmiya said 25 people arrived in Beit Hanoun hospital "unconscious" after Israeli forces fired tear gas toward farmers and houses close to the border. Others described the explosives as having a foul smell and and unusual color. 

Sixty-four years have passed since Palestinian society was decimated by the forcible transfer of some 700,000 people by Israeli forces. Each year, on 15 May, 'Nakba Day' commemorates the anguish of those who were expelled from their homes and those who fled in panic under direct military assault. Today also serves as a day of remembrance for the mass murders of 1948 and the destruction of entire villages, of Deir Yassin and Tantura and Al-Dawayima, when hundreds of Palestinians were killed during a period that is now known simply as 'the catastrophe'. 

For Palestinians, May 15 marks the date their ancestors were displaced during the creation of Israel. RT talks to Ahmed Tibi, a Palestinian-Israeli member of the Knesset to find out whether divisions in the country can be bridged and discuss the importance of the Nakba for Palestinians around the world. 

Tuesday's annual Nakba Day commemorations, marking the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, focused largely on support for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Until an agreement reached on Monday night, more than 1,500 prisoners had fasted for weeks, demanding an end to administrative detention and for improving their prison conditions. Yesterday, Israel announced that it would meet a few of the prisoners' demands in exchange for an end to the hunger strike. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians and international supporters demonstrated outside the Ofer Military Prison near Ramallah, in the largest West Bank protest today. 

Palestinians are marking the Nakba or Catastrophe. It is a day they mourn the loss of their homeland and the displacement of their people by the creation of the State of Israel. There has been minor scuffles between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in Qalandiya, The crowd is expected to get larger through the course of the day. More than 760 thousand Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in 1948 - their descendants now number around 4 point 7 million. Around 160 thousand Palestinians stayed behind. Their descendants - known now as Palestinian Israelis - make up 20 percent of Israel's population. 

About 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have ended their hunger strike after a deal was reached to improve prison conditions. The prisoners have been demanding an end to solitary confinement and detention without charge. The deal holds special meaning for the people in Gaza as they will be able to visit family members held in Israeli jails, something that they haven't been allowed to do in more than seven years. Al Jazeera's Caroline Malone reports. 

Israeli settlement building and curbs on economic development in the occupied West Bank risk wrecking Palestinian hopes of creating their own state, the European Union said on Monday. Clearly frustrated by long-stalled peace talks, European Union foreign ministers issued a detailed statement, accusing Israel of accelerating settlement construction and tightening its control over East Jerusalem at the expense of Palestinians.