Arab Israelis, Palestinians rally to mark Land Day

[Tony Gosling]

Arab Israelis, Palestinians rally to mark Land Day

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AFP


March 30, 2014 11:53 AM
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ARRABA (Israel) (AFP) - Palestinians and Arab 
Israelis commemorated on Sunday Land Day with 
rallies remembering six of their number who were 
shot dead during a 1976 demonstration against land seizure.
In the northern Israeli town of Arraba, thousands 
of people turned out for the main demonstration, 
many waving Palestinian flags, an AFP correspondent said.
A smaller gathering also took place in Sawawil, a 
Bedouin village in the southern Negev desert 
which is not recognised by Israel, with police saying hundreds participated.
The annual Land Day demonstrations are held to 
remember six Arab Israeli protesters who were 
shot dead by Israeli police and troops during 
mass demonstrations in 1976 against plans to confiscate Arab land in Galilee.
In annexed east Jerusalem, some 70 demonstrators 
gathered outside the walls of the Old City by 
Damascus Gate, throwing stones and chanting 
slogans, a police spokeswoman said, adding that 
the rally was quickly broken up and one person arrested.
Spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP that Land Day 
demonstrations were "over or nearly over" by the 
evening and that nothing out of the ordinary took place.
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There were also several gatherings in the Gaza 
Strip, with scores of people attending a 
demonstration near the northern town of Jabaliya 
organised by the ruling Hamas movement.
Among the crowd were youngsters wearing green 
baseball caps and makeshift tunics fashioned out of the Palestinian flag.
They changed slogans and held up banners reading: 
"We will return to our land, no matter how long it takes."
A demonstration near the southern city of Khan 
Yunis drew similar numbers, among them dozens of 
children holding balloons bearing the Palestinian 
flag or scrawled with the word "Gaza".
Scattered demonstrations and sit-ins also took 
place in the West Bank, including in the southern 
city of Hebron where foreign peace activists also attended. 
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