Hundreds of Palestinians marched via Deir Hanna, the place Israel violently cracked down on protests on March 30, 1976.
Palestinians on Saturday have been joined by individuals throughout the globe in marking Land Day, the forty eighth anniversary of Israel’s killing of six unarmed protesters who rose up towards the Israeli authorities’s confiscation and occupation of Palestinian land.
Hundreds of Palestinian individuals marched via Deir Hanna, one of many Israeli cities the place authorities violently cracked down on nonviolent protesters on March 30, 1976, as they honored Raja Abu Raya, Khader Khalayleh, Khadija Shawahneh, Kheir Yassin, Mohsin Taha, and Raafat Zuhairi.
Greater than 100 individuals have been additionally injured by Israeli authorities in the course of the protest in 1976, which was organized in opposition to Israel’s confiscation of almost 5,000 acres of land that belonged to Palestinian residents of Israel within the northern Galilee area.
The Good Shepherd Collective, an anti-Zionist human rights group primarily based within the West Financial institution, stated that with Israel bombarding Gaza and conducting raids virtually each day within the West Financial institution as officers seize extra land, Land Day turns into “extra related” yearly.
“No Palestinian must be reminded of the centrality of the land within the wrestle for justice and liberation. Land Day is extra a remembrance of 1 bloodbath amongst lots of over multiple hundred years of Zionist violence,” stated Good Shepherd Collective. “Within the midst of a genocide, we should proceed to talk out and converse of the context of settler-colonialism’s baked-in logic of elimination.”
Final week, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich introduced Israel was seizing almost 2,000 acres of land within the occupied West Financial institution, which might permit the nation to construct extra unlawful settlements. The nation’s settlement-planning authority stated earlier this month it had accredited the development of three,500 new housing models within the territory.
Because the Center East Eye reported, Israeli forces carried out in a single day raids throughout the West Financial institution forward of Land Day, killing a 13-year-old boy named Nabil Abu Abed close to Jenin.
The U.S.-based Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) marked Land Day as organizers with the group held solidarity marches and rallies in cities together with Boston; Portland, Maine; and Windfall, Rhode Island. Different teams organized a march scheduled for Saturday night in New York Metropolis.
The group famous that Land Day additionally marks the start of the Nice March of Return protests, which have been held weekly for 21 months beginning on March 30, 2018 as demonstrators demanded an finish to Israel’s blockade of Gaza and the precise to return to the houses their households have been expelled from in 1948 when Zionist forces cleared the way in which to determine Israel. Greater than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces for taking part within the marches, together with 46 youngsters.
“We mourn the hundreds whom the Israeli navy murdered or completely injured over time. We honor those that rose up in 1976 and all who’ve risen as much as battle for justice in Palestine,” stated JVP.
Marches additionally happened in Cardiff, Wales; London; Madrid; and Helsingborg, Sweden, with protesters reiterating the demand for a right away, everlasting cease-fire in Gaza.
“I’ll maintain [marching] so long as the bombing and the apartheid and the injustice is happening,” Stephen Kapos, an 86-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, advised Al Jazeera.
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