land day
On 30 March 1976, thousands of Palestinians who live in the territories occupied by israel in 1948 gathered to protest Israeli government plans to expropriate 60,000 dunams of Arab-owned land in the Galilee. Israeli police killed six Palestinians that day, wounded hundreds, and jailed hundreds. In the intervening years those events have become consecrated in the palestinian memory as Land Day.
After years of military rule and political docility, Land Day 1976 was the first act of mass resistance by the Palestinians inside Israel against the Zionist policy of internal colonialisation, a systematic process of expropriation that had reduced Palestinian land ownership from around 94 per cent of all territory in pre-1948 Palestine to less than three per cent !
Land day is a day where Palestinians mark the attachments between them, their ancestors with the land. It marks resistance. It marks our roots and rights in this land.
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