The Israeli military says it has dispersed a demonstration of Palestinians who had marched to the Israeli border in the northern Gaza Strip.

It says troops fired tear gas to break up a crowd of around 300 who had entered the immediate border area, which it considers off limits.

Israel, which withdrew from Gaza in 2005, considers the Hamas-run territory to be a hostile entity. It has carried out two large military operations there in response to militant rocket attacks in recent years. The border area has been largely quiet since a weeklong Israeli military offensive last November.

Friday’s demonstration marked the 13th anniversary of the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.

Small demonstrations also took place in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The Israeli Air Force conducted a strike in Lebanon between Beirut and Sidon, responding to rockets that had been launched at northern Israel Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces said Friday.

The IDF described the launch of rockets targeting Israel as a “terrorist aggression originating from Lebanese territory.”

Lebanon’s National News Agency said Israeli warplanes attacked a site belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) General Command located in the al-Naama valley at dawn Friday.

The Israeli attack comes in response to an earlier attack in which four rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at northern Israel Thursday, with two of them landing in populated areas, Israel Defense Forces said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised his nation would respond.

The United Nations peacekeeping force monitoring the Israeli-Lebanese border, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), on Thursday sent a helicopter to investigate the attacks which were reportedy launched from the southern town of Tyre into Israel.

According to the statement, the parties confirmed their interest in keeping the situation under control and pledged to cooperate and work closely with UNIFIL.

ԱՄՆ-ի պետքարտուղար Ջոն Քերին կոչ է արել Իսրայելի  և Պաղեստինի առաջնորդներին վերսկսել մերձավոր արևելքի խաղաղության գործընթացը:

Israeli police on horseback charged Palestinians as tens of thousands marched in protest to mark the 65th anniversary of the Jewish state’s creation.

There were violent clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians waving their national flag to commemorate ‘Nakba Day’ – or ‘the day of the catastrophe’.

Every May 15, Palestinians hold rallies to protest against their mass displacement during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948.

Across the West Bank, sirens wailed at noon for 65 seconds to commemorate the 65 years since the ‘nakba.’

Thousands marched in Ramallah from the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to the city center. Many wore black in a sign of mourning, holding Palestinian flags and large keys symbolizing the homes they left behind.

‘The right of return will not die,’ chanted the protesters. Schools closed at midday and parents brought their children to the demonstration.

Rallies were elsewhere in the West Bank as well, and in several places demonstrators throwing rocks clashed with Israeli security forces, who responded with tear gas, Israel’s military said. Near the volatile city of Hebron, a fire bomb hit at an Israeli military vehicle, causing it to overturn and injuring four soldiers.

In east Jerusalem, Israeli police used water cannon and officers on horseback to disperse an ‘illegal march,’ police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Fourteen protesters were arrested, as was a Palestinian suspected of attacking a Jewish man as he walked near the Old City, he said.

In Gaza, around a thousand people marched to the U.N. headquarters in Gaza City, where the demonstrators chanted: ‘We shall return. We will never give up or compromise over our land.’

‘We won the support of the world,’ Abbas said, adding that Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians are ‘condemned internationally.’