Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 16)
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Armed Struggle in Occupied Palestine
This spring, on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the 1936-39
revolt in Palestine, Palestinian freedom fighters continue to escalate
armed attacks against the Zionist occupation forces.
On the night of April 15, 1936, three
Arab militants attacked a Zionist convoy
near Nablus, killing two Zionists and
wounding a third. It was later known that
the three were from the secret revolutio-
nary cells formed by Ez Al Din Al Qas-
sam and led by Sheikh Farhan Al Saadi,
who was in his eighties. The next day,
Zionist settlers killed two Palestinian citi-
zens, and tension mounted throughout
the country. On the morning of April
20th, the city of Jaffa woke up to a gen-
eral strike. In the following days, this
spread throughout Palestine to become
the beginning of the 1936-39 Palestinian
revolt. The general strike lasted six
months, and was accompanied by other
forms of mass resistance and wide-
spread armed action which continued
untii 1939, against the Zionist settlers
and British colonialists.
The 1936-39 revolt and its lessons
rank high among the proud traditions of
Palestinian national struggle, which are
still very much alive and being daily
developed by our masses under occu-
pation. A new escalation in military oper-
ations was noted this year, just after
King Hussein's speech which attempted
to undermine the Palestinian people’s
unity and sole representation. According
to Israeli sources, quoted in early March,
there were 76 acts of resistance in the
two weeks following this speech, as
compared to 43 in the two preceding
weeks. This shows that the Palestinian
masses still place their faith in continu-
ing the revolution, not in joint maneuvers
with reactionary regimes.
March 1986
In March, military operations
against the Zionist occupiers averaged
more than one a day. Two hand grenade
attacks on Israeli soldiers, and eight
explosions against targets such as set-
tlements, factories and military posts,
were reported in the part of Palestine
occupied in 1948. On March 24th, a
Zionist soldier was stabbed near
Nazareth and dispossessed of his Uzi
machine gun. On March 6th, two Israeli
intelligence officers were stabbed to
death, one in Bir Sabe (South Palestine)
and the other in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem was the site of other dar-
ing attacks. On March 7th, an American
Zionist was seriously wounded by gun-
fire. The next day, an Israeli soldier was
stabbed and seriously wounded. On
March 18th, a Mossad agent was killed
and three others wounded by a remote
control bomb.
On March 2nd, a Zionist soldier was
killed and four others wounded in two
separate attacks in the occupied Gaza
Strip. On March 5th, Palestinian free-
dom fighters successfully detonated a
remote control explosion, the first in the
Strip, against a motorized Zionist patrol.
On March 10th, an Israeli soldier was
wounded in a clash between a group of
Palestinian militants and a Zionist milit-
ary patrol in the Strip. There were
moreover numerous firebombs and
stones thrown against the occupiers in
various parts of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
March 30th, the Day of the Land,
witnessed numerous military operations
and acts of mass resistance. Acar bomb
exploded at the entrance of an Israeli
intelligence office in French Hill,
Jerusalem, destroying cars and damag-
ing buildings. In Jericho, a mine
exploded under an Israeli military truck,
causing casualties among the soldiers
riding in it; another military truck was
attacked with firebombs, and a patrol car
came under heavy machine gun fire. In
Jenin, a firebomb was hurled at a Zionist
military truck. Near Bethlehem, resi-
dents of Duheisha camp attacked an
Israeli military vehicie with stones, injur-
ing the driver.
April 1986
On April 1st, two bus stations were
hit by bombs in Jerusalem. This brings to
29 the number of bus stations that have
been burned or otherwise destroyed in
the last few months.
The PFLP announced three suc-
cessful operations in early April: The unit
of the martyr, Ghassan Kanafani,
attacked a Zionist military convoy with
firebombs in Jerusalem; ten soldiers
were injured, three of them seriously.
Another attack was launched against a
Zionist patrol in Gaza, wounding several
soldiers. In Nablus, the unit of the mar-
tyr, Samir Al Dubbi, attacked a Zionist
patrol with bombs and machine guns,
causing extensive casualties among the
soldiers.
A Zionist military spokesman noted
that 14 attacks had been carried out in
the Gaza Strip in late March and early
April, including the stabbing of settlers,
remote control explosives, hand gre-
nade attacks and stone-throwing. In
April, in the Strip, hand grenades were
thrown at Zionist patrol cars, and at the
Gaza police station. Firebombs were
thrown at military jeeps near Shatti
camp, and many Zionist vehicles were
attacked by stone-throwers. Freedom
fighters also carried out attacks near
Nseirat camp and near the theology col-
lege in Gaza.
In the occupied West Bank, four
hand grenade attacks were launched at
military vehicles, north of Jerusalem, in
the first half of April. There were two
firebomb attacks on the Coca Cola fac-
tory in the same area. In mid-April, the
driver of a bus carrying Zionist settlers
was shot dead and the bus was attacked
with firebombs. In Khalil, an Israeli bus
was destroyed by fire, and a settler from
Kiryat Arba was stabbed. There were
three firebomb attacks on police cars
near Qalandia camp, _ north of
Jerusalem. There was a hand grenade
attack on a military car near Nablus, and
a clash between freedom fighters and
Zionist soldiers near Balata camp in the
same area.
In the part of Palestine occupied in
1948, the inspector general of the
Zionist police said during a press confer-
ence that an increasing number of
Palestinians within the ‘green line’,
especially in the Galilee and Triangle,
were coming into possession of ammun-
ition and weapons. He said, «There is no
need for the Palestinian organizations to
smuggle in weapons from _ out-
side...(when) they can obtain them from
soldiers or Israeli arsenals.» The escala-
tion of military operations was also
reflected in Police Minister Haim Bar
Lev’s words, that alert had been
declared 86,000 times during 1985.
On April 8th, two bombs exploded,
one in Afula, the other in Haifa; Zionist
radio admitted several casualties. A
Zionist patrol car was attacked by
firebomb near Tireh, and another near
Kafr Qasim, northeast of Tel Aviv.
Moreover, scores of Katyusha rockets
were fired on Zionist settlements from
the southern border of Lebanon. ) - هو جزء من
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