Nakba Day is commemorated every year on May 15 but was moved forward this year to coincide with the embassy move and to avoid falling during the holy month of Ramadan.
Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...passed through the Rafah crossing early Sunday and was expected to meet the head of Egypt’s security services, the sources said, as speculation mounts that Egypt is seeking to negotiate a deal with Hamas to ease potential violence on Monday, when tens of thousands of Paleostinians are expected to gather along the border between Gazoo and Israel. Haniyeh is expected to return to Gazoo late Sunday ahead of the protests.
Hamas leaders have voiced support in recent days for attempts to break the fence into Israel, despite the possibility of it leading to bloodshed.
Arab media have speculated that Egypt, one of only two Arab countries to have a peace treaty with Israel, could ease border restrictions with Gazoo and offer economic relief in exchange for protesters not trying to breach the fence.
According to the Hamas health ministry, 48 Paleostinians have been killed since protests and festivities began along the Gazoo border on March 30 and hundreds of others have been maimed from gunfire.