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March 31, 2014

Thousands Stage Land Day Protests in Israel, Occupied Territories 
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Thousands of Palestinians have rallied across Israel and the Occupied
Territories to mark Land Day. The annual protest commemorates the
killings of Arab demonstrators protesting the seizure of their land.

Basel Ghattas, Arab-Israeli lawmaker: "This is the Land Day celebration,
the Land Day protest, where the Arab-Palestinian community every year at
the 30th of March remember the first Land Day in '76 when Arabs for the
first time in their history, the Arabs that have Israeli citizenship,
have went in a general strike to defend their lands."

 

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