DPS to shut down Capitol grounds ahead of Nakba Day rally

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Department of Public Safety said it will close access to the state Capitol Saturday night due to a "potentially large-scale protest event" on Sunday, according to a memo from the agency.

Sunday's "protest event" is a multi-organization effort to commemorate the Nakba (translated from Arabic as "catastrophe"), which was the "mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war," according to the United Nations.

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