Showing posts with label land day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land day. Show all posts

Monday, 31 March 2008

Hawara Checkpoint - West Bank


Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint protesting on the day of Palestinian land day.

Land Day at Sakhnin

March 30, 2008

Israel has agreed to remove about 50 of its more than 500 checkpoints in the occupied West Bank - a move it says is designed to help the Palestinian economy.

The announcement came on what Palestinians call Land Day, an annual day of protest triggered by the deaths of six Arabs during a demonstration in 1976.

Monday, 2 April 2007

Palestinians Mark 31st Anniversary of Land Day

Palestinians Mark 31st Anniversary of Land Day
By MIFTAH
March 29, 2007
Friday, March 30 marks the 31st anniversary of Land Day for Palestinians inside the Green Line, the West Bank and Gaza and in theDiaspora. Thirty-one years ago in 1976, six Palestinians from the Galilee were shot and killed by Israeli security services during peaceful demonstrations protesting the impending confiscation of their land. One hundred others were injured and 300 arrested that day.