Tag: Land Day
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Land Day demonstration in Ni’lin
30 March 2009 On March 30th, about 30 Palestinian villagers from Ni’lin, supported by international and Israeli solidarity activists, held a protest to commemorate Land Day. The nonviolent demonstration was stopped by Israeli forces on the outskirts of the village, far away from the construction site of the wall. Three military jeeps parked in the…
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Rummana village marks Land Day by planting trees near Israeli military base
On Land Day, the 30th of March, around 75 men, women, and children from Rummana village protested Israel’s Apartheid Wall and a nearby military base. Rummana, located in the Jenin region of the northern West Bank, has lost many dunums of farmland due to the construction of the military base. Villagers, supported by international solidarity…
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Land Day in Deir Sharaf
30 March 2009 During the land day the 30th of March 2009, the Palestinian Popular Party and several other Palestinian Associations organized a demonstration near a polluted Waste Land in Deir Sharaf and Cosin village close to Nablus in the West Bank. This toxic waste comes from the industrial areas from the settlements nearby the…
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List of actions in Palestine for Land Day and Global BDS Day
Stop the Wall | Global BDS Movement 30 March 2009 The people in Palestine are mobilizing for the 32nd annual commemoration of Land Day, happening March 30. Land Day marks the date of the Palestinian demonstration that occurred in the Galilee against a wide-scale land confiscation, when Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians, injured 96 and…
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BDS global day of action
Boycott National Committee | Global BDS Movement 30 March 2009 Boycott Israel! Make it account for its crimes in Gaza! Today, the Palestinian people scattered across the globe mark Land Day, commemorating the events of 33 years ago, when Israeli security forces shot and killed six young Palestinian citizens of Israel and injured many. These…