TEHRAN -- Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has lauded the Palestinians’ struggle to acquire the right to return to their homeland and has predicted that they will attain their goal soon.

Meanwhile, Acting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday declared three days of mourning for scores of people martyred in mass marches toward multiple Israeli borders that marked a remarkable new tactic in the struggle for right to return.
“We must praise the courage and faith of all those who protested yesterday (Sunday) on the Lebanese and Syrian borders with occupied Palestine as well as within Palestine, those who stood with bared chests and heads high before the tyranny of the enemy army,” Lebanese website Naharnet quoted Nasrallah as saying on Monday.
On Sunday, the Palestinian demonstrators gathered in different cities across the Middle East to commemorate the May 15, 1948 occupation of Palestine, known as the Nakba Day (the day of catastrophe). But the Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators in Lebanon, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, killing and wounding hundreds of people.
Nasrallah went on to say that the Palestinians living in Syria and Lebanon would not settle for an alternate homeland and they would dedicate all blood, souls, and physical sacrifice to return to their lands.
“Dozens died as martyrs and hundreds were injured -- they spoke loudly by spilling their pure blood so that the world would hear their voice,” he added.
“Your message was that you are determined to liberate the homeland, be the sacrifices precious as they are, and that the fate of (Israel) is to disappear, and no initiative, deal, or border will protect it. Your message is that your return to Palestine is a right closer to being realized now than at any time in the past,” he said.
“We stand beside you, rejoice in your joy and wallow in your pain. We will march together in the path of the resistance in order to complete the victory, and free all our lands and holy places.”
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday strongly condemned the killing of Palestinian demonstrators.
“This action of the Zionist regime goes against all the international norms and is in contravention of the international conventions,” Salehi said, calling on the international forums to promptly launch an investigation into the Zionist regime’s criminal action.
The Iranian foreign minister praised the Palestinian people and the Islamic Ummah for organizing this great protest, saying undoubtedly this movement was inspired by the Islamic awakening which has taken place in the region.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Salehi insisted on the Palestinians’ right of return to their homeland, emphasizing that the only way to counter the Zionist regime’s suppressive policies is putting up a widespread popular resistance against this regime.
Salehi again assured that the Islamic Republic of Iran will stand by the oppressed Palestinian people who staged widespread rallies on Nakba Day and said that this movement promises a bright future for the Islamic Ummah.
Palestinian leader Abbas also criticized Israeli brutality, and said, “Their (Palestinian protesters) blood will not be spilled in vain, because their blood was spilled for the freedom and rights of our people.,” he said.
Flags at public buildings in the West Bank were lowered to half-staff.
At the United Nations, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office issued a statement on Sunday saying he was “deeply concerned” about the violence. “He calls on all concerned to show restraint and refrain from provocations so as to prevent escalation of tensions and ensure civilians are not killed or injured,” the statement said.
According to AP, early Monday, the unrest spilled over into Egypt, where riot police fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. The protesters set fire to an Israeli flag, chanted anti-Israeli slogans and called for the expulsion of Israel's ambassador and the closure of the embassy. Twenty were arrested and 353 people were hurt in the clashes with police, Egyptian officials said.
In 1948, the Zionist regime forced 760,000 Palestinians out of their homeland to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and neighboring Arab states and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated and destroyed.
Since then, the vast majority of Palestinian refugees have been prohibited by Israel from returning to their homeland and reclaiming their property.