For Palestinians, Land Day comes amid war, death and land theft

Palestinians this year mark the 48th anniversary of Land Day amid a brutal Israeli war on Gaza, near daily raids in the occupied West Bank, and an increase in land confiscation and settlement building.

On 30 March 1976, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as thousands of Palestinian in Israel's northern Galilee region rose up in protest against the Israeli expropriation and occupation of Palestinian lands.

The event became known as Land Day and a symbol of national struggle that unites Palestinians around the world.

On Saturday afternoon, under the banner of "stop the war on Gaza", thousands of Palestinians marched through the Palestinian town of Deir Hanna, one of the towns in Israel where the most violent crackdown on protesters took place that day in 1976.

Land Day is also seen as significant because it is deemed to mark the first time that Palestinian citizens of Israel organised collectively against Israeli policies.

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For Palestinians, Land Day comes amid war, death and land theft