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March 2007

Land Day in Bil'in

Today Palestinians commemorated Land Day, the anniversary of the murder of six nonviolent protesters, on strike against massive land confiscations, by Israeli troops in the Gallilee in 1976. Since then Land Day has been marked by protests reasserting Palestinian rights over their land.

Back in Palestine

I arrived in Palestine yesterday after travelling overland through Europe, Turkey, Syria and Jordan. I will be here for the next month making links with grassroots groups in the Tubas/Jordan Valley Region with other activist from the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group (tubas.brightonpalestine.org) and working with the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org).

Tree Planting in Aqaba

It is surely a celebration. Everyone is bustling about, preparing for the day's activities. But it is different than a typical celebration. Instead of carrying brightly colored drinks and holding plates of food, people are carrying shovels and pick-axes to plant seedlings as part of a plan to grow trees throughout the Jordan Valley.

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