Canada Park
Canada Park considers the 1967 expulsion of some 10,000 Palestinian residents from three ancient villages “ Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba “ on the West Bank. The villages, razed on the order of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, along with some 80,000 acres of privately owned land, were declared a closed military zone, the property of the state of Israel and the Jewish National Fund, a non-profit group that develops land for Jewish settlement. The Jewish National Fund of Canada, a registered charity, raised millions of dollars to build a seven kilometre-long attraction called Canada Park atop two of the ruined villages. The park's woodlands and historical sites, including forts and burial caves, have drawn millions of visitors since it opened in 1970. Nazzal's work highlights how national parks, not unlike Canada's occupation of Indigenous land, makes trespassers of those whose land it remains