Palestinians mark the 45th anniversary of Land Day
Zionist troops fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades towards the participants who commemorated Land Day causing many to suffocate due to excessive tear gas inhalation.
Palestinians mark the 45th anniversary of Land Day with rallies and marches in West Bank and several Arab towns inside occupied territories, mainly in the towns where Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel and injured many others who were protesting Israeli government appropriation of thousands of dunums of their lands.
The main events took place this afternoon in the towns of Sakhnin, Arrabeh, Deir Hanna, Kufr Kanna, and Taybeh, all in northern Israel.
Israeli occupation forces quelled a peaceful rally marking the 45th anniversary of Land Day in the town of Sebastia, north of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.
The participants in the rally called for commemorating Land Day in Sebastia because of the ongoing violations practiced by the Israeli army and settlers against it and their attempts to take over its archaeological site.
Land Day is marked every year by Palestinians since March 30, 1976, in remembrance of those who fell while defending their lands from being illegally seized by the Zionist regime.