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For first time in 70 years, Palestinians return to their villages

Hammad, Shatha
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/time-80-years-palestinians-return-villages-180328181432322.html

Publisher:  Aljazeera
Date Written:  30/03/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

To commemorate Land Day, group of Palestinian refugees returned to the villages they were expelled from in 1948.

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As part of an initiative launched by Filastiniyat, a Palestinian non-governmental organisation, a group of elderly refugees from the occupied West Bank and from inside the territories occupied by Israel in 1948 were given a chance to fulfil their dreams of returning to their destroyed villages surrounding al-Lydd.

They were all between 70 and 95 years old.

The journey was planned to coincide with Land Day, which marks the day when, on March 30, 1976, Israel ordered the confiscation of massive tracts of land belonging to Palestinian citizens of Israel.

In the demonstrations that followed, Israeli forces shot and killed six Palestinians.

The event is viewed as a continuation of the campaign of ethnic cleansing that Israel has carried out against Palestinians since 1948 until this day.

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