Commemorating Land Day and calling for boycott Credit: . Date: March 31st, 2009.
Demonstrations, protests and tree planting occurred across historic Palestine on March 30, as Palestinians commemorated Land Day. The Popular Committees, in cooperation with municipalities and other organizations, planned activities in a number of villages and cities. The growing momentum and support of the boycott movement among Palestinians is becoming more tangible, a result of the grassroots organizing that has been undertaken throughout the West Bank.
Above: Villagers in Rumaneh, west of Jenin, march on Land Day. The youth of the village planted 100 trees in areas near the Wall, which is built on hundreds of confiscated dunums of Palestinian land.
Above: Women participated in a demonstration at the Damascus Gate in the old city of Jerusalem, calling for a boycott of Israeli products.
Above: Palestinians gathered at the Qalandiya checkpoint, calling for an end to land theft and settlement expansion.
Above: In the village of Jayyous in the Qalqilya district, villagers planted olive trees near the Wall. Soldiers attacked the gathering, leading to clashes that lasted until the evening. One young man was shot at close range with several rubber bullets and rushed to the hospital in Qalqilya city.
Above: In the far north of the West Bank, people of Zububa village planted olive trees on their land near the Salem military base.
Above: In the ’48, thousands of people joined the central demonstration started from Sakhanin and then proceeded to Arraba Batof and ended in Deir Hanna.
Above: A boy watches as a tear gas grenade lands in Ni’lin, east of Ramallah. Occupation forces attacked a Land Day demonstration, injuring at least 8 people. Soldiers invaded the village, showering tear gas onto homes and firing at youth, who responded with stones.
Above: Villagers plant olive trees in a Land Day celebration near the Wall at the village of al-Quba in Bethlehem.
Above: People march against the Wall on Land Day in Idna, Hebron. At least eight people were injured when soldiers attacked the protest.
Above: At Qalandiya, representatives from PENGON raise a banner calling for an end to the environmental damage wrought by waste dumping and settlements and call for boycott.
