Israeli Arabs marched in memory of assassinated Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Thousands of Israeli Arabs, in annual Land Day protests marking the killing of six Israeli Arabs by Israeli police in a 1976 riot, marched peacefully Tuesday. This year’s rallies included denunciations of the Israeli airstrike in which Yassin, the founder of the terrorist group Hamas, was killed March 22.
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