Palestinians to go on general strike on the Land Day

Head of the Monitoring Committee Mohamed Zidan said in a press statement on Thursday that the committee has decided to commemorate the Land Day this year by a general strike and by organizing several events in rejection of the occupation policy of house demolitions and the seizure of Arab lands.

On 30 March 1976, thousands of Palestinians in 1948 territories gathered to protest Israeli regime's plans to expropriate thousands of dunums of Arab-owned land in the Galilee.

In the resulting confrontations with Israeli police, six Palestinians were killed, hundreds wounded, and hundreds jailed.

Those events have become consecrated in the Palestinian memory as Land Day, which has become an Arab and Palestinian national event and a symbol of the unity of the Palestinian people.

The occupation authorities have confiscated between 1948 and 1972 more than one million dunums of the Arab lands in the Galilee and the Triangle area.

Millions of other dunums of lands were seized by the Israeli occupation after a series of appalling massacres committed by its forces and after the forcible deportations of Palestinians from their hometowns in 1948.