Palestinians mark 'Land Day' amid calls for ending division

Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip commemorated on Wednesday the "Land Day" amid calls to end division and unite in the face of the Israeli occupation.

Participants held up banners reading "All Palestine is our right" and "On this earth what makes life worth living". 

Speaking on the occasion, Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Executive Committee Zakaria al Agha said "we stick to our land and the occupation cannot usurp it", pledging to continue the popular resistance till the occupation of the Palestinian lands is ended.

For his part, Hamas leader Ahmed Bahr stressed the necessity of closing ranks and supporting the popular resistance till restoring Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem).

The Land Day on March 30 is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976. In response to the Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of land for security and settlement purposes, a general strike and marches were organized in Arab towns from the Galilee to the Negev.

In the ensuing confrontations with the Israeli army and police, six unarmed Arab citizens were killed, about one hundred were wounded, and hundreds of others arrested.

Source : MENA