“We are coordinating with the military and border police, we hope things will be quiet,” Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP on Monday. “We have mobilized a number of units in various areas,” he added.

The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, representing Arab communities in Israel, called for a general strike and for Israeli Arabs to go to displaced Palestinian villages while the committee stated that this year’s Nakba events were also dedicated to the hunger strikers in the Israeli jails.

Tuesday’s central Palestinian rally will be in the West Bank city of Ramallah, organized by the Palestinian Authority, while there will be one also for the hunger strikers, meeting in Ramallah city centre and walking to Ofer prison, according to PNN.

Demonstrations are also scheduled for east Jerusalem and throughout the Gaza Strip.

 Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, said he is launching a marathon especially in honor of Nakba Day.

This year’s Nakba day coincides with a deal reached between the Palestinian prisoners and Israel to end a mass hunger strike , in exchange for better conditions.

“There is an agreement — the strike is over,” Sivan Weizman, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prison Service, said on Monday evening. Qadura Fares, the president of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, based in Ramallah in the West Bank, said that the agreement was reached by prison leaders on behalf of all the Palestinian factions, Reuters reported. The end of the strike calmed fears of widespread unrest in the event of a prisoner’s death.

Today, more than 4 million registered Palestinian refugees worldwide with majority of them residing within 60 miles of the borders of Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip where their original homes are located.

More than 760,000 Palestinians Today’s Arab Israelis are descendants of roughly 160,000 Arabs who stayed in the lands that became Israel in 1948. Their number now stands at 1.3 million, which amounts to 20 percent of Israel’s total population, and demographers predict that by 2025 they’ll be a quarter of the country’s people.

Last year, Israeli troops opened fire on demonstrators from Lebanon and Syria trying to enter Israel. Four protesters from Syria were killed along with another 10 from Lebanon. Hundreds were wounded.