On 30 March 1976, Israeli occupation forces in Palestine shot dead six unarmed protesters and injured hundreds more while confiscating an area of Palestinian land in the Galilee roughly the size of central London. Still commemorated annually, the atrocities have gone down in history as Land Day, and protesters across Palestine face Israeli police violence each year to ensure the dispossession is not forgotten.
Now, almost exactly 50 years later, with genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank as backdrop, it’s happening again. As in 1976, land seizures are taking place just inland of the port city of Haifa – this time in the town of Majd al-Krum within what is internationally acknowledged Israeli territory. The communities to be dispossessed are Palestinians who hold full Israeli citizenship. ….more
