Democratic Palestine : 17 (ص 11)
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Occupied Palestine
Military Operations
While the Israelis escalate the iron fist policy-repressive measures, deportations, and political arrests-
against our masses in occupied Palestine, the Palestinian militants continue to escalate military operations.
In spite of the fact that the Zionist radio daily announces the discovery of revolutionary cells, the Israeli
leaders admit they are unable to counter Palestinian acts of resistance. In the past weeks, there have been
scores of military operations.
ACROSS THE JORDAN
VALLEY
On the night of April 12th, the PFLP
unit named after the martyr, Al Kha-
waja, moved across the Jordan Valley
towards Arghman settlement in occupied
Palestine. As the group reached the
settlement, four kilometers west of the
Jordan River, it clashed with an Israeli
patrol. The freedom fighters used
machine guns and grenades, and many
Zionist soldiers were killed or injured.
As usual, the Zionist enemy did not
acknowledge the casualties, but was
forced to admit that there had been a
clash. Oné Palestinian was martyred
and another captured and imprisoned.
With the two militants, the Zionists
found three klashnikov machine guns,
15 magazines and a pistol.
This operation has a number of
significant implications due to its
details, timing and outcome in terms of
the casualties and confusion caused in
the enemy’s ranks. First and foremost,
it confirms that armed struggle proves
to be the most effective method for
confronting the Zionist enemy. The
experience of the Palestinian revolution
in South Lebanon and across the Jor-
danian border, shows that armed
struggle remains the best method for
mobilizing the Palestinian and Arab”
masses in the battle with the enemy. This
heroic operation by PFLP militants
stands in sharp contrast to the ineffec-
tiveness of the rightist Palestinian lea-
dership’s bets on the US and Arab reac-
tionary settlement plans. The failure of
these plans in being proven daily.
Secondly, this heroic operation attests
to the significance of the Jordan Valley
as a strategic base for launching military
operations. It is common knowledge
that, of all Arab borders with occupied
Palestine, the Jordanian is the longest
(600 kilometers). This makes it impos-
sible for the Zionist enemy to control it
completely. In addition, the Jordanian
border is closest to the Zionist settle-
ments and thus to the Zionist entity. It is
also known that the Jordanian regime
protects the borders and the Zionist
settlements on this front. Thus, this
heroic operation points to an urgent task
for the Palestinian revolution, i.e., con-
tinuous struggle to return the revolution
to its strongest supportive operational
base - Jordan. This cannot be achieved
through relations with the regime, but
by consolidating the Jordanian national
movement and mobilizing the masses in
Jordan to struggle for democratic
change. This would facilitate the return
of the Palestinian movement to Jordan,
the importance of which was proven by
the experience of armed struggle across
the Jordan Valley in 1967-70.
The third significant thing about this
operation is the character of one of its
heroes: Comrade Hamdan AI Rajbee,
father of ten, was martyred at the age of
60. He had been a fighter with the PFLP
since 1968. Comrade Hamdan lived
through the Palestinian people’s
struggle and setbacks for more than half
a century. Despite his family responsi-
bilities and advanced age, Comrade
Hamdan continued to carry the gun.
The lesson we learn from the story of
this martyr is the determination of our
people to continue the struggle, despite
the Zionists’ attempts to demoralize
them.
ZIONIST VEHICLES
ATTACKED
Two bombs were thrown at a military
vehicle on April 27th, near Qalandia
camp outside Jerusalem. The Zionist
forces swept through the camp and
made many arrests in a feeble attempt to
find the attackers. On April 29th, there were
two separate attacks on Zionist military
vehicles in the Gaza Strip, one by fire
bomb and the other by remote control
explosion. Again, on May Ist, guerrillas
detonated remote-control explosives
against a vehicle of Zionist settlers as it
passed Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist forces imposed a curfew on
the camp for days, and made extensive
searches and arrests. On May 3rd,
Palestinians of Duheisha camp in the
West Bank stoned a Zionist military
vehicle, injuring two soldiers. On the
same day, freedom fighters in Gaza
threw a hand grenade at a Zionist
patrol. On May 4th, there were three
bomb attacks on Zionist targets in the
Jerusalem area. In one, an explosive
charge was placed in a bakery in Kiryat
Moshe, to explode at a time when it is
full of Israeli soldiers. There were heavy
casualties, but the Zionist radio only
acknowleged the loss of two vehicles.
Many Palestinians were arrested for
interrogation. On May Sth, a night club
frequented by Zionist soldiers was set on
fire. There was a complete media black-
out on the incident.
Acts of resistance against collabora-
tors rose, especially in the Gaza Strip. A
collaborator from Jabalia camp was
killed on May 3rd. There were three
other attempts to liquidate collabora-
tors in the Strip. A collaborator from
Abu Ghosh village near Jerusalem was
stabbed to death on May 4th.
On May 7th, the Zionist authorities
arrested twenty Palestinians, alleging
that they were members of the biggest
guerrilla cell in the occupied West Bank.
The leader of the cell is 30 year old Alaa
Al Deen Abu Al Zain, who was impri-
soned in 1981 for killing a German tou-
rist. He lost his sight in an explosion
when he was trying to plant a bomb ina
collaborator’s car, A recently published
Israeli report said that forty other
Palestinians, who had been freed in the
May 1985 prisoner exchange, were
rearrested. They are subject to constant
interrogation and torture.
In the second week of May, there were
at least five separate attacks on Zionist
military vehicles and posts in the Gaza
Strip alone. On May 12th, the fields of
Netzarim settlement, south of Gaza,
were set afire by burning tires. In the
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