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By the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians lose most of their land

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 1757 words · By Fayha Shalash
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What to know about By the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians lose most of their land

By the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians lose most of their land Palestinians continue to face illegal Israeli settlement expansions, land seizures and restrictions on access to their land.

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What happened

By the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians lose most of their land Palestinians continue to face illegal Israeli settlement expansions, land seizures and restrictions on access to their land.

Why it matters

It was a devastating experience for Abdul Rahman Azzam, 65, to recently cut down the olive trees he had planted decades ago on his land south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, following an Israeli decision to confiscate it for the construction of a road for…

Common ground

The land slated for confiscation last December spans more than 513 dunams (51.3 hectares), 450 of which belong to the village of al-Fandaqumiya alone, with the remainder belonging to neighbouring towns such as Silat ad-Dhahr and al-Attarra.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Israel confiscated 55,000 dunams of land, including 20,000 dunams under the pretext of modifying the boundaries of nature reserves, and 26,000 dunams through 14 declarations of 'state land' in the cities of Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Qalqilya”
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Claim 2: “The Oslo Accords, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993, divided the West Bank into three categories: Area A, under full Palestinian control, comprising approximately 18 percent of the West Bank; Area B, under joint Palestinian and Israeli control, comprising 22 percent; and Area C, under full Israeli control, comprising 60 percent”
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Claim 3: “Mohammed Fouad was surprised to find an Israeli army bulldozer on his land without prior notification”
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Claim 4: “By the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians lose most of their land”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Land Day (Arabic: يَوْم اَلْأَرْض, romanized: Yawm al-ʾArḍ; Hebrew: יוֹם הַאֲדָמָה, romanized: Yom HaAdama), recurring on March 30, is a day of commemoration for Palestinians, both Arab citizens of Is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Day
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs by Israel through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, propert…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "There was no such thing as Palestinians" is part of a widely repeated statement by Golda Meir, the then Israeli prime minister, in her second month in office, made in an interview with Frank Giles, t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_was_no_such_thing_as_Pal…
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Claim 5: “Qusay Abu Naim's community was expelled due to the intensity of settler attacks on the village”
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Claim 6: “The Israeli Knesset also recently approved what is called lifting the ban on data concerning landowners in the West Bank, which makes it easier for settlers to seize land and allows them to purchase it, even in Area A, with the help of settlement associations”
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Claim 7: “Palestinians continue to face illegal Israeli settlement expansions, land seizures and restrictions on access to their land”
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Claim 8: “According to data from the Palestinian Authority’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, Israel seized 5,572 dunams of Palestinian land in 2025 through 94 confiscation orders for military purposes, in addition to three expropriation orders and four declarations of state land”
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Claim 9: “In response, widespread strikes and demonstrations were organised in several towns and villages, which were met with force, resulting in the deaths of six Palestinians and the injury and arrest of hundreds”
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Claim 10: “The land slated for confiscation last December spans more than 513 dunams (51.3 hectares), 450 of which belong to the village of al-Fandaqumiya alone, with the remainder belonging to neighbouring towns such as Silat ad-Dhahr and al-Attarra”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fubon Guardians (Chinese: 富邦悍將) are a professional baseball team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan. The team is owned by Fubon Financial Holding Co. and play their home …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following highways are numbered 450:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following highways are numbered 513:
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Claim 11: “Land Day commemorates the events of March 30, 1976, when Israeli authorities announced the confiscation of vast tracts of Palestinian land in the Galilee region”
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Claim 12: “Abdul Rahman Azzam cut down the olive trees he had planted decades ago on his land south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, following an Israeli decision to confiscate it for the construction of a road for an illegal Israeli settlement”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (Arabic: عبد الرحمن حسن عزام; 8 March 1893 – 2 June 1976), also known as Azzam Pasha, was an Egyptian diplomat and politician. He was the first Secretary-General of the Arab …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Hassan_Azzam
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ((1941-11-14)14 November 1941 – (1989-11-24)24 November 1989) was an Islamist jihadist and theologian of Palestinian-Jordanian origin. Belonging to the Salafi movement within Sunn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, the secretary-general of the Arab League from 1945 to 1952, declared in 1947 that, were a war to take place with the proposed establishment of a Jewish state, it would lead …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azzam_Pasha_quotation
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