Every year
since 1976, on March 30, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land
Day. Though it may sound like an environmental celebration, Land Day marks a
bloody day when Zionist security forces gunned down six Palestinians, as they
protested Israeli expropriation of Arab-owned land in the country’s north to
build Jewish-only settlements.
In response
to Israel’s announcement of a plan... to expropriate thousands of acres of
Palestinian land for “security and settlement purposes,” a general strike and
marches were organized in Palestinian towns from the Galilee to the Negev. The
night before, in a last-ditch attempt to block the planned protests, the
Israeli government imposed a curfew on the Palestinian villages of Sakhnin,
Arraba, Deir Hanna, Tur’an, Tamra and Kabul, in the Western Galilee. The curfew
failed; citizens took to the streets. Palestinian communities in the West Bank
and Gaza, as well as those in the refugee communities across the Middle East,
joined in solidarity demonstrations. In the ensuing confrontations with the
Israeli army and police, six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed, about
100 wounded, and hundreds arrested.
The month
following the killings, an internal government paper, written by senior
Interior Ministry official Yisrael Koenig, was leaked to the press. The
document, which became known as the Koenig Memorandum, offered recommendations
intended to “ensure the [country’s] long-term Jewish national interests.” These
included “the possibility of diluting existing Arab population concentrations.”
The names
of the six victims of Land Day are written on the front of a monument in the
cemetery of Sakhnin, accompanied by the words: “They sacrificed themselves for
us to live ... thus, they are alive − The martyrs of the day of defending the
land, 30 March 1976.”
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A Palestinian youth is arrested by Israeli border police during a demonstration marking Land Day around the old city in East Jerusalem on March 29, 2014. Land Day is held every year to mark the deaths of six Palestinians protesters at the hands of Israeli police and troops during mass demonstrations in 1976 against plans to confiscate Arab land in Galilee.
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A Palestinian youth is arrested by Israeli border police during a demonstration marking Land Day around the old city in East Jerusalem on March 29, 2014. Land Day is held every year to mark the deaths of six Palestinians protesters at the hands of Israeli police and troops during mass demonstrations in 1976 against plans to confiscate Arab land in Galilee.
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38 years later, Israel gives Palestinians new reasons to mark Land Day
House demolition in Anata, Northern Jerusalem, April 14, 2008 (Photo: Meged Gozani/Activestills.org)
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They deserve to be back in their own home and their own land. #LandDay #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/qwR6fmwPuD
Poster by waleed Idrees published in 2012, "Palestine will remain larger than your walls"
Poster by Mohannad Abu Ghoush published in 2010 "No to humiliating agreements and yes to popular struggle"
Poster by Fateh published in 1985, "The land belongs to those who liberate it"
Poster- by Mwafaq Matar published in 1984 #LandDay pic.twitter.com/YgR34Qi6c3
Poster by Marc Rudin in 1983 (7 years for the anniversary of #LandDay ) #March30 pic.twitter.com/zPbuhereqi
Poster by PLO unified information unit published in 1980 "generation of land day"#LandDay #March30 pic.twitter.com/G6DZVmNud4
Poster by PLO unified information unit published in 1980 "generation of land day"
Poster- by Khaled Hijazi published in 1980 #LandDay #March30 pic.twitter.com/kclHQYBNcK
Poster- The day of Palestinian lands published by Fateh in 1976 #LandDay
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