New data on Land Day: Israel's land discrimination in numbers

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38TH ANNIVERSARY OF LAND DAY, 30 MARCH

In 1976, Palestinian citizens of Israel staged mass protests against the stateâ€™s expropriation of thousands of dunams of Palestinian-owned land in the Galilee. 38 years later, the struggle continues, as Israel daily expropriates Palestinian land for alleged security and settlement purposes on both sides of the Green Line.

NEW DATA ON LAND ALLOCATION AND THE SALE OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROPERTIES

Today, the state of Israel, through the Israel Land Authority (ILA) owns 93% of the land of Israel, and through the Civil Administration controls the majority of land in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The stateâ€™s unequal land distribution policy grants substantial privilege to Jewish citizens, daily undermining the rights of Palestinians to live with dignity on their land. Wanting to document how Israel continues to tighten its control over confiscated Palestinian-owned land and property in Israel and the OPT, Adalah researched and compared the numbers and locations of state-published bids for new housing units and industrial and commercial zones, and its sales of Palestinian refugee property. Read and share the full data report!

The High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel has declared a general strike in commemoration of Land Day on 30 March 2014.

ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN THE NAQAB (NEGEV)

While home demolitions and land confiscations continue in the Naqab, the state also pursues discriminatory educational policies in the newly recognized Arab Bedouin villages. In the village of Al-Furaâ€™a, 180 out of 400 high-school aged children have dropped out of school due to the lack of a local high school in their village of 5,000 people. Read about Adalahâ€™s demand to establish a high school in the village, which would substantially decrease the shocking 45% dropout rate, many of whom are girls. Further, numerous schools for Bedouin children are not connected to the national electricity grid. Following Adalahâ€™s petition last summer, the Education Ministry announced this month that it began work to link three of the seven schools to electricity in the coming months.

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