JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s deputy foreign minister says an annual protest Palestinians mounted over the weekend is “political terrorism.”
Danny Ayalon spoke Saturday in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. He said Land Day protests are “a continuation of the diplomatic terrorism (Palestinian Authority President) Abu Mazen is using against Israel in international forums.”
Palestinians have held Land Day demonstrations since 1976 to protest what they say is discriminatory Israeli land policy. On Friday about 2,000 Arab-Israelis demonstrated in northern Israel, where much of Israel’s Arab minority lives. Israeli troops killed one protester in the Gaza Strip, and other supporters marched in Jordan and Lebanon.
Another 200 activists marched Saturday in Jaffa, the historically Arab quarter of Tel Aviv.
