Palestine’s Land Day, March 30, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated vast areas of Palestinian land.
This year, Land Day comes amid Israel's military offensive on Gaza that has killed more than 30,000 thousand Palestinians since October 7 / Photo: AP Archive
"The area of Palestinian lands actually subject to Israeli measures amounted to 2,380 square kilometres, constituting 42 percent of the total area of the West Bank, and 69 percent of the total areas classified as , which are areas subject to occupation military rule,” he added. “The occupation measures and the terrorism of colonial militias have led, since October 7, to the displacement of 25 Palestinian Bedouin communities, consisting of 220 families, including 1,277 individuals,” he said.
Under the 1995 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was divided into three portions – Area A, B, and C – with area C under administrative and security control of Israel until a final status agreement is reached with the Palestinians.
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