Marking the 46th anniversary of Land Day which coincides tomorrow, March 30, Palestinians are planning rallies in Arab towns in Israel to commemorate the protests on that day 46 years ago against the Israeli government takeover of Palestinian land and the brutal police crackdown that left six Palestinians dead.
The Higher Arab Follow-Up Committee that represents the Palestinians in Israel today called on the public to participate in a march that will start tomorrow afternoon in the town of Sakhnin, then to Arraba, and ends at Deir Hanna in northern Israel where the central rally will be held.
It said in a statement that Land Day is marked this year as the Israeli state escalates its aggression against Arab lands in the Naqab desert with plans to build 12 settlements for Israeli Jews on Palestinian land, two of them for religious Jews.
At the same time, it added, instead of expanding the area of the Arab cities and towns, the Israeli government continues to build Jewish settlements at the expense of the Arab towns, such as Umm al-Fahem, and area villages, by incorporating most of the land for the settlement instead of the Arab towns.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency