Scores of Palestinians demonstrated today in the Arab cities of Sakhnin and Shefa-Amr in the 1948-occupied territories in protest of the Israeli policy of home demolitions targeting the indigenous Palestinian-Arab communities in the country.
During the two vigils, held ahead of the Palestinian Land Day, the participants waved banners denouncing Israel’s demolition of homes and the discrimination faced by Arab Palestinians in the territories.
Arabs in today’s Israel are Palestinians who stayed on their land following the creation of the occupying state in 1948 and their descendants. They make up about 20 percent of the country’s nine million people.
By law, their rights are equal to those of Jewish citizens. But in practice they suffer discrimination in employment, housing, policing and other essentials.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency