(30 Mar 2012) Beaufort Castle, Nabatiyeh, south Lebanon
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1. Wide of army vehicles patrolling along border fence between Lebanon and Israel
2. Lebanese army soldiers near the border
3. Various of UN peacekeeper vehicles near the border
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4. Protester playing bagpipes next to fence
5. Mid of protesters at border fence
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mohamed Kamal, Palestinian refugee:
"This is a precious day for the Palestinian people and I hope for all the Palestinians to be united and draw attention to Palestine."
7. Wide pan of demonstration
8. Boys dancing for elders
9. Women waving Palestinian flags
10. Wide of demonstration
11. Women singing and waving flags
Southern Shouneh, near Israeli border, Jordan
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12. Various of members of 'Jews United against Zionism' holding placards and Palestinian flag protesting in support of Palestine
13. Close of placard
14. Mid of 'Jews United against Zionism' demonstrators
15. Zoom into badge reading (English) A Jew Not A Zionist
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rabbi Feldman, member of Jews United against Zionism:
"Occupation in Palestine is wrong. This is not Judaism, this is not the voice of Jews. This is a catastrophe for the Palestinian people. We may not allow this to continue. This is an embarrassment to us all that this is continuing for so long. This is against Judaism. Jews are forbidden to have their own state."
17. Various of protesters clashing with organisers' security asking for the Jews to leave the site
18. Wide of Italian activists holding banner and marching
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barbara Gantner, activist from Switzerland:
"What's going on in Palestine is really against humanity and since here we have the same problem what is going on there and people have to support Palestine."
20. Wide of rally
21. Mid of Indonesian activists marching
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese demonstrators gathered at in Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon on Friday to mark Palestinian Land day amid heavy security measures.
More than 3-thousand demonstrators gathered outside the British Crusader-built Beaufort castle 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the Israeli border, waving Palestinian flags, singing Palestinian national songs and performing the traditional dabke dance.
Security forces kept them from moving any closer to the border.
Land Day is the annual commemoration of the killings of six Arab-Israelis in 1976 by Israeli police during protests over government confiscation of Arab-owned land in northern Israel.
The Lebanese army and security forces took strong measures to prevent the protest from spiralling out of control following a protest last May to mark Israel's 1948 creation, an event Palestinians refer to as the nakba, or catastrophe.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon also carried out patrols and monitored any suspicious activity from its bases near the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Lebanon is home to 400-thousand Palestinian refugees.
Thousands of Jordanians and international activists also gathered at Southern Shouneh, near Jordan's border with Israel to mark Land Day.
Prominent amongst them were members of 'Jews United against Zionism', who attended the rally in support of Palestinians.
"Occupation in Palestine is wrong..This is against Judaism. Jews are forbidden to have their own state", said Rabbi Feldman.
The group believes the concept of a Jewish state is contrary to Jewish law.
Protesters from Switzerland, Italy and Indonesia were also among the protesters at the rally, which was organised by Global March to al-Quds, the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
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