Palestine National Council (PNC) said that the celebration of The Land Day every year is an affirmation that the land is the core issue in our struggle against the Israeli occupation, and an expression of the
Palestinian people's adherence to the land of their forefathers and grandparents and their rejection of the settler colonial policies and procedures that target their national and historical presence on their land.

In a statement PNC issued for the 45th anniversary of this national day, which will fall tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30th, PNC called on the Palestinian people in all places of their presence to defend their land,
strengthen their national unity, and their resistance to occupation, settlement and Judaization in all forms.

The Land Day, which came after the gift of the masses on the 30th of March 1976 in response to the policy of seizing the land and the attempt to Judaize the Palestinian Galilee, embodied the highest meanings of
sacrifice and redemption for our people who have the inherent right to it in the face of Zionist colonialism, PNC said.

The Land Day strengthened the Palestinian national awareness of the masses of our people in the Galilee, the Triangle and the Negev, strengthened the bonds of unity between our people in the homeland and
the diaspora, and contributed to the formulation of the national narrative in the face of the false and fabricated narrative of the Zionist movement, PNC added and called on our people in the 1948
territories to adhere to unity and to miss the opportunity for the Israeli occupation that tried and is still trying hard to penetrate the national position and divert attention from the issue and the national
goals.

In its statement, PNC pointed to the seriousness of the settlement and Judaization policies and measures implemented by the occupying power in the Palestinian territories, especially in Jerusalem and the Jordan
Valley, warning against continuing the occupation, creating a Settlement Ministry, providing tax facilities for settlers, and supporting and protecting their terrorism against Palestinian people.

PNC indicated that the settlement attack today is intensifying on Al-Bustan and Batn Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, Wadi Al-Joz, Walaja, and Qalandia Airport, to displace Palestinians and expel them from the Holy City and change its cultural features to continue its Judaization and impose an occupation fait accompli, in an attempt to prevent its incorporation as the capital of the Palestinian state.
PNC called on Arab, regional and international federations and parliaments to condemn the Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing, and to strengthen their support for the Palestinian people and their legitimate national rights, and to emphasize the prosecution of Israeli war criminals by international courts and bring them to trial and not with impunity.
PNC also called on the United Nations and its institutions to implement its decisions on the Palestinian issue and the necessity to activate international binding mechanisms to implement these decisions, and to oblige the occupying state to comply with international legitimacy to end the occupation and enable Palestinian people to exercise their right to return and self-determination in their independent state with
Jerusalem as its capital.

PNC concluded its statement by affirming that Palestinian people everywhere continue to defend their land. PNC directs a salute of reverence and exaltation to the souls of the martyrs, and the steadfast heroic prisoners in the prisons and jails of the Israeli occupation.