May 18, 2013
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Land Day, March 30, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976. In response to the Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of land for security and settlement purposes, a general strike and marches were organized in Arab towns from the Galilee to the Negev. In the ensuing confrontations with the Israeli army and police, six Arab citizens were killed, about one hundred were wounded, and hundreds of others arrested.
Scholarship on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict recognizes Land Day as a pivotal event in the struggle over land and in the relationship of Arab citizens to the Israeli state and body politic. It is significant in that it was the first time since 1948 that Arabs in Israel organized a response to Israeli policies as a Palestinian national collective. An important annual day of commemoration in the Palestinian national political calendar ever since, it is marked not only by Arab citizens of Israel, but also by Palestinians all over the world.
(via Freebase)
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![Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti placed in solitary confinement [IBA, Israel]](/images/image_cache/base-2609000/2609200/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=d589c73bed77291d252818923d6490ab)
![Palestinians confront Israeli occupation on Land Day [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-2577000/2577766/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=754ecd81c0409971c0502fbdecd56517 "Palestinian protesters shout during a protest marking Land Day, near the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip March 30, 2012: REUTERS/Suhaib Salem")
![International activists descend on Lebanon ahead of Land Day protest [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-2460000/2460870/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=049e3aca3699a70936a18529ad64b33d)
![Palestinians launch 'Spring of Negev' protests against Israeli plan to uproot Bedouins [Dubai TV, UAE]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312246/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=b21d7081360b1879f5abf0e8411caddc "Reuters / Amir Cohen")
