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Hundreds march in Deir Hanna in support of Gaza on Land Day

 
AN ISRAELI Arab girl takes part in a ‘Land Day’ rally, an annual commemoration of the killing of six Arab citizens by Israeli police in 1976 during protests against land confiscations in Deir Hanna in Galilee (photo credit: REUTERS)
AN ISRAELI Arab girl takes part in a ‘Land Day’ rally, an annual commemoration of the killing of six Arab citizens by Israeli police in 1976 during protests against land confiscations in Deir Hanna in Galilee
(photo credit: REUTERS)

Land Day reoccurs on March 30 as a day of commemoration for Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians for the events of that date in 1976.

Hundreds of people marched on Saturday in the Arab local council of Deir Hanna in northern Israel in support of Gaza on Land Day.

Land Day reoccurs on March 30 as a day of commemoration for Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians for the events of that date in 1976, where Arab-Israelis went on a general strike in Arab towns in response to the government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of land.

Video documentation from Saturday showed a large crowd marching and waving Palestinian flags.

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What did the event focus on?

The event in Deir Hana focused on three main issues this year: preserving the land, dealing with the rising crime in Arab society and calling for an end to the war in Gaza, according to Maariv.

Hadash-Ta'al MK Yosef Atauna wrote: "We will stand firm and continue to fight against the government of killing and destruction until the war stops."

Other events were held in several places throughout the country, including in Sakhnin, where Ra'am MK Iman Khativ-Yasin and Hadash-Ta'al MK Osama Saadi participated.

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