Several hundred residents of Beitunya/Ramallah, Palestinian refugees from the 1967 demolished villages of Emmwas, Yalo and Beit Noba, as well as Palestinian and Israeli activists gathered in Beitunya on June 5 in order to participate in the first “March of Return” organized by the Three Latroun Villages Committee in cooperation with the Palestinian Information Ministry. The march to the site of the demolished villages was prevented by the massive presence of Israeli army. Instead speakers from all Palestinian political factions, representatives of the Palestinian authorities, Palestinian and Israeli women organizations, institutions and even Peace Now spoke in support of the right of return in general and demanded the rapid return of the residents of the three villages specifically.