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DAMASCUS, QUNEITRA, (SANA) – Thousands of Syrian and Palestinian people on Monday escorted three martyrs to their final resting place in solemn processions.

The martyrs were killed by the Israeli occupation forces at Ein al-Tin and Majdal Shams sites yesterday on Nakba Day anniversary.

The Israeli occupation's military forces opened fire on Martyrs Obeida al-Zaghmout, 29 years old young who resides in al-Yarmouk Camp in Damascus and works in the United Arab Emirates. Qaes Abu al-Haijaa, 31, married with one daughter and works as a mechanic engineer. Bashar al-Shihabi, 19, from Dara'a.

The Syrian and Palestinian citizens underlined commitment to the way of struggle against the Israeli occupation to regain the internationally-recognized rights of self-determination, the right to return home and establishing the Palestinian independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

They hailed families of the occupied Syrian Golan for their patriotic stances who rushed to defend their Palestinian brothers in the face of the Israeli occupation forces who opened live fire to disperse them on al-Nakba Day.

Shahinaz Fakoush, Regional Leadership Member of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party said to SANA that the Israeli occupation forces have provoked the participants in the sit-in at Ain al-Tina, opening live fire on them before reaching the barbed wire that separates between the occupied and liberated Syrian lands regardless of the international laws and the right of peaceful demonstrations.

Families of the three martyrs and al-Quneitra governorate yesterday escorted the martyrs from Mamdouh Abaza Hospital in Quneitra to the Martyrs' cemetery in al-Yarmouk Camp in Damascus amid cheers, flowers and scattering of rice.

MAZEN EYON