The International Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza in partnership with the Moroccan Commission to Support the Nation’s Causes marked the 41st anniversary of the Palestinian Land Day in the Moroccan city of Meknes.
The International Campaign and the Moroccan Commission said in a joint statement issued Friday that the Land Day is an occasion to raise Moroccans’ awareness about the legitimacy of the Palestinian national struggle and to boost resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation.
The participants called for the need to stand up for the Palestinian people and to defend the holy al-Aqsa Mosque against Israel’s sacrilegious schemes.
The campaigners spoke out against Israel’s arbitrary abduction campaigns against the Palestinians and its illegal settlement activity across the occupied territories.
Representative of the international anti-siege campaign in Morocco Mohamed al-Idrisi called on the world’s free people and the international community to urgently work on lifting the siege on Gaza and sign the international petition to that very end.
He further pushed for ceasing all forms of normalization with the Israeli occupation and to speak up for Palestinians’ infringed rights nationwide and overseas.
On Thursday March 30 the Palestinians marked the Land Day to demonstrate their devotion to their motherland and resistance to the Israeli land grab policy.
Since 1976 Palestinians have been holding vigils and seminars to mark the Land Day in an act epitomizing collective resistance to the Israeli policy of appropriating more Palestinian lands.
The events of the Land Day date back to 1976 when the Israeli authorities swallowed large Palestinian tracts of land in the Galilee resulting in deadly clashes with the Palestinian locals. Six Palestinians were pronounced dead hundreds were left injured and several others arrested.
