Land Day (,
Yom al-Ard; ,
Yom HaAdama), March 30, is an annual day of commemoration for
Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976. In response to the
Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of
dunams of land for security and settlement purposes, a
general strike and marches were organized in Arab towns from the
Galilee to the
Negev. In the ensuing confrontations with the
Israeli army and police, six unarmed
Arab citizens were killed, about one hundred were wounded, and hundreds of others arrested.