Democratic Palestine : 12 (ص 13)
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- Democratic Palestine : 12 (ص 13)
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Palestinian
National Resistance
The tightening of Zionism’s terrorist grip in occupied Palestine has
not lessened the frequency of the operations carried out by Palesti-
nian revolutionaries. The escalation of military activity is the only
appropriate response to the Zionist challenge.
The increase of Palestinian national
resistance is not merely a claim made by
Palestinian revolutionaries. It is a fact
which is also admitted by official Zionist
circles. The Israeli general, Yahuda Ba-
rak, head of military intelligence, con-
ceded that Palestinian revolutionaries
have hit over 660 Zionist targets this
year,resulting in 81 killed and 150 in-
jured. This is in comparison to 343 oper-
ations last year, with 10 killed and 136
wounded, making this year’s escalation
dramatic. On more than one occasion,
Zionist military spokesman and corres-
pondents have acknowledged that there
iS a «new generation of radical Palesti-
nians,» more determined to resist occu-
pation.
The qualitative escalation of resis-
tance is due to continuous development
of homemade weapons and the acquisi-
tion of more advanced weaponry, either
smuggled to the fedayeen, or taken from
enemy arsenals. The latter fact is a
source of increasing fear for the Zionists.
They themselves have information that
«large quantities of arms have been sto-
len from the Israeli arsenals» and are
thought to be in the hands of Palestinian
citizens of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. In addition, the Zionist newspaper
Hamishmar reported that Israeli govern-
ment circles are wotried about «large
quantities of arms in the Arab villages of
the Galilee area,» indicating the spread
of armed struggle in the area of Pales-
tine occupied in 1948.
The following is an account of the
main military operations during Sep-
tember and October. Needless to say,
each operation, even incidents of
Stonethrowing, is followed by curfew,
vicious searches and the detention of
scores of citizens.
September
In Ramallah, on September 10th,
Palestinian revolutionaries attacked a
Zionist military patrol car with a fire
bomb, near the public hospital. In the vil-
lage of Sarah near Nablus, revolu-
tionaries attacked a Zionist patrol car
with flammable material. A Zionist milit-
ary spokesman admitted the operation
occurred, but made no mention of
casualties. He noted the new form of
resistance being used against Zionist
patrol cars, and termed this «burning
parachutes». Palestinian revolution-
aries throw burning pieces of material
formed like parachutes. On September
10th, this method was used in seven
places in the occupied territories:
Ramallah, Gaza, Sair near Al Khalil
(Hebron), Sarah and Barqa near Nab-
lus, Aroub camp near Al Khalil and in
Shufat. The residents of Aroub camp
attacked and injured a Zionist soldier. In
Shufat, an Egged bus was attacked.
South of Gaza, a border patrol was
attacked with fire bombs.
On September 12th, 5 Zionists
were wounded when a bus was attacked
by stonethrowers on the road from
Jerusalem to Ramallah. This occurred 5
hours after 5 Palestinians had been
wounded on the same road by a Zionist
settler who said that he «suspected»
that he was going to be attacked. He
thus fired his machinegun at five
unarmed Palestinian men.
On September 18th, a fire bomb
was thrown at an Israeli bus near
Bethlehem. On September 19th, the
anniversary of the Sabra-Shatila mas-
sacres, two molotov cocktails were
thrown at a bus on the road between
Kafr Saba and Eiyal settlement. The bus
caught fire. Fire bombs were thrown at
patrol cars on Mount Zion in Jerusalem
and in Nablus.
In Al Khalil and Halhoul, a curfew
was imposed and Israeli search parties
set out after a wave of military opera-
tions, looking for those who threw a hand
grenade at a Zionist patrol car on Sep-
tember 28th. After stones were thrown at
a Zionist bus at Halhoul, Geula Cohen,
Knesset member, demanded the evacu-
ation of all the citizens of Halhoul, saying
«This city has been a source of trouble
for over 60 years.»
On September 29th, Palestinian
revolutionaries set off two bombs in
Haifa. One exploded in the Turkish mar-
ket, injuring 7 Zionists as acknowledged
by Israeli reports. The second went off in
a park in the city center, but no casual-
ties were mentioned. Fifty-seven Pales-
tinians in the area were arrested. The
same day, Palestinians threw bombs at
a tractor driven by two Zionist settlers
near Eydan settlement near the Jorda-
nian border.
On September 30th, Israeli radio
reported that a Zionist soldier had been
stabbed in Rishoun Leetsyoun settle-
ment which is built on the site of Oyoun
Mara village, northwest of Ramallah.
Elementary school children in Jabalia
camp attacked a military patrol car with
stones, whereupon the soldiers fired
with machineguns.
October
On the night of October 1st,
revolutionaries attacked a military car
with hand grenades on the road bet-
ween Nuseirat camp and Gaza city.
Zionist forces surrounded Ein Beit
Elma and Balata camps near Nablus, for
8 days, after a series of attacks on patrol
cars. The Zionists also rushed to Rafah
to remove slogans on the walls, calling
for escalated resistance against the
occupation.
A Zionist patrol car was attacked in
Sair village near Al Khalil with machine-
guns. The Zionists reported many petrol
bomb attacks in the same area. Also on
October 1st, petrol bombs were thrown
at a restaurant frequented by Zionists
near Jebal Mukaber in Jerusalem. The
Israelis admitted heavy material dam-
age but no casualties.
On October 2nd, a bomb exploded
on aroad leading to Al Khalil, as a Zionist
patrol car passed. Israeli reports admit-
ted the destruction of the vehicle and
casualties. A similar attack occurred in
Qalgilia.
On October 3rd, a Zionist military
spokesman reported that an Israeli
police station in Toubas was attacked
with petrol bombs. There were machine-
gun and molotov attacks on Zionist bus-
ses in Qalqilia and Arraba, destroying
both vehicles. A similar attack occurred
near Beit Sourif; the injury of one settler
was reported. In the woods near
Jerusalem, two settlers were found shot
to death. A kibbutz settler was found
shot to death near Nazareth.
On October 6th, a commando
group operating in the occupied ter-
13 - هو جزء من
- Democratic Palestine : 12
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- نوفمبر ١٩٨٥
- المنشئ
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
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