Democratic Palestine : 14 (ص 10)
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On Jan. 9, in a Tel Aviv suburb, ex-
chief of the Mossad, Yitzhaq Huvi, was
Critically wounded after being shot in the
neck and hip with a machine gun.
On Jan. 11, two Zionist soldiers
were attacked by Palestinian militants in
the center of Nablus. While one of them
was in a store, the other was hit by
machine gun fire in the car. The first was
shot when he rushed out at the sound of
fire. Zionist police opened fire indiscrimi-
nately at Palestinian civilians, injuring
two women and three men, one of them
seriously. The wounded Zionist soldiers
were taken to hospital by helicopter, and
one of them died. A curfew was clamped
on the city. Visitors arriving from Jordan
were sent back over the bridge. Stu-
dents were not allowed to sit for their
examinations. Members of the ultra-
Zionist Tehiya Party demanded that
families lixing near the site of the opera-
tion be evicted from their homes. Many
Palestinian citizens were gathered in the
city square and abused and humiliated.
True to form, the newly appointed pro-
Jordanian ‘mayor’ of Nablus, Thafer al
Masri, played stooge to the occupiers.
Anxious to prove his loyalty,he apo-
logized for the shooting of the enemy
soldiers.
Missiles hit Kiryat Shmoneh settle-
ment, destroying three cars.
On Jan. 12, an Israeli taxi driver was
stabbed several times near Ramleh. In
Jerusalem, a 13 year old girl was
arrested for throwing a rock at an Egged
bus.
On Jan. 13, explosives went off ina
terminal for Israeli army trucks in Ramat
Gan, east of Tel Aviv. A Mossad
informer was shot through the head near
Lydda.
On Jan. 15, a bomb exploded in
Kiryat Taboun settlement, east of Haifa.
On Jan. 17, Zionist army camps in
the Upper Galilee were hit by Katyusha
rockets. Many casualties and extensive
damage were reported.
On Jan. 21, timed explosives set by
Palestinian guerrillas went off at a
cafeteria visited by Israeli army officers
in Afoula. This is the eighth explosion in
Afoula in the last three months. After the
explosion, the Zionist police enacted a
broad arrest campaign against Palesti-
nians in the city. According to Israeli
radio, the explosion caused the death of
one Israeli and material damage to the
nearby Egged bus station.
On Jan. 22, a bomb exploded at a
military base in Afoula. A border patrol
car was attacked with hand grenades on
the road between Absan and Beni
Suheila in the Gaza Strip.
On Jan. 27, in Paris Square of
Haifa, abomb exploded. In Jerusalem, a
bomb exploded in a restaurant fre-
quented by Zionist officers.
On Jan. 30, a Zionist intelligence
officer, Avraham Bayazi, 30 years old,
was shot dead while driving near Bab Al
Khalil in Jerusalem. Two other Israelis
were injured by the fire that came froma
passing car.
On Jan. 31, a bomb was thrown at
an Israeli car carrying employees of the
Israeli ‘civil’ administration in the
occupied Gaza Strip. The Zionist
authorities imposed a curfew on the city
and arrested a number of Palestinians.
Zionism Parallels Apartheid
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The following article appeared in «Daily World», the newspaper of
the Communist Party - USA, on December 20th, 1985.
Representatives of a group of US
lawyers this week condemned Israeli
practices in the occupied Arab territories
as violations of international law. They
compared them to South African apar-
theid.
The lawyers, just returned from a
fact-finding mission to Israel and the
occupied territories, met at UN head-
quarters in New York with a representa-
tive of Secretary General Javier Perez
de Cuellar and with General Assembly
President Jaime de Pinies (Spain). They
expressed their deep concern about the
impending Israeli deportation from the
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West Bank of four prominent Palesti-
nians.
At a news conference, Wilhelm
Joseph, co-chairman of the National
Conference of Black Lawyers, .and
Michael Smith, editor of the national
newsletter of the National Lawyers’
Guild, said that deportations from
occupied territories are expressly prohi-
bited in Article 49 of the 1949 Geneva
Convention.
They drew attention to the fact that
this article was included in the Geneva
Convention largely because of world
revulsion and horror at Nazi Germany's
World War II deportation of Jews from all
over Europe to death camps in Poland
and Germany.
«| find the parallels between the
Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the
occupied territories and South Africa's
treatment of Black people to be abso-
lutely frightening,» Joseph said. «For
example, West Bank Palestinians must
carry passbooks which limit their free-
dom of movement just as Black people
must in South Africa.»
«A Palestinian from the West Bank
may sweep the streets of Tel Aviv by
day, but he must be back on the West
Bank by midnight,» Joseph said. «Col-
lective punishment, house and town
arrest and the dynamiting and bulldoz-
ing of Arab homes is routine practice.
Administrative detention is common.
Incidences of torture were related to us
on our trip by anumber of Palestinians. »
Joseph and Smith emphasized
their concern about the impending
Israeli deportation of four Palestinians -
Dr. Azmi Shuaibi, elected member of the
former city council of Al Bireh, which was
dissolved by the Israelis; Ali Abu Hillal,
founder of the Workers’ Unity Bloc, a
federation of 52 legal trade unions; Has-
san Abdul Jawad Fararga, journalist,
owner of the Bethlehem Press Service
and leader in the Dheshieh refugee
camp, and Zaki Abu Statieh, Palestinian
political prisoner released in May.
Smith told the gathered reporters,
«While in Israel, we met with US Ambas-
sador Thomas Pickering on the deporta-
tions and asked for US government
intervention both on legal and humanita-
rian grounds. He reiterated the US posi-
tion that the deportations violate the 4th
Geneva Convention and indicated it was
likely he would be able to bring this issue
up with the Israelis.
«Renato Jarach, the government
prosecutor, said the charge against the
four is that they have been active in set-
ting up what he called ‘a pre-state forma-
tion.’ This is an Israeli pre-emptive
move. If these men can be deported sim-
ply for their associations, many others
could be deported as well.»
Joseph pointed out that the Israelis
are using the slightest excuse to arrest
people they suspect of having Palesti-
nian national feelings.
«Zaki Abu Statieh was married just
after his recent release from prison. He
was arrested for singing Palestinian
songs at his wedding,» Joseph said, and
now he and three others face deporta-
tion from their homeland. - هو جزء من
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