Land Day Zine
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Land Day, March 30th
A commemorative date that marks the murders of six unarmed Palestinian martyrs who resisted the intensifying annexation and settler-colonial endeavors of Israel’s occupation forces.
In 1976, mass collective action composed of marches and general strikes sprung up across historic Palestine after the Israeli government announced a plan to annex more Palestinian land in the Galilee.
In response to these protests, Israeli forces shot at, injured, and arrested hundreds of unarmed Palestinian citizens
– killing six in the process.
Still, 49 years later, the people of Palestine continue to bravely resist the genocidal Israeli apartheid state and its illegal occupation of their historic land.
Land Day not only honors those whom we’ve lost, but celebrates those who continue to fight for a free Palestine.
“[The United Nations General Assembly] reaffirms also the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and calls for their return.” -1974 UN General Assembly, Res. 3236
The Great March of Return
Starting on Land Day of 2018, Palestinians in Gaza demonstrated in massive, weekly protests to demand the end of the (then 11-year) Israeli siege of Gaza and the right of refugees to return to their homeland in Palestine.
These protests, dubbed the Great March of Return, were organized weekly for nearly 2 years. Thousands of Gazans protested near the Israeli fence confining the Gaza strip. Despite the non-violent nature of these protests, Israeli occupation
forces responded with intense violence. Israeli snipers shot over 6,100 demonstrators, killing over 200, maiming thousands more.
