Democratic Palestine : 19 (ص 10)
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- Democratic Palestine : 19 (ص 10)
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Mass Resistance
The Zionist leadership engineered the
Sabra-Shatila massacre to terrorize the
Palestinian people and make them
despair of ever regaining their rights.
The Zionists’ crime, however, had the
opposite effect on our people under
occupation. It only increased their rage
and resistance. Each year since 1982,
September 16-17th have been an occa-
sion for demonstrations as well as
commemoration of the martyrs of
Sabra and Shatila. the commemoration
was especially militant this year with
numerous demonstrations and acts of
resistance. The occupiers reacted vio-
lently to suppress the demonstrations,
in some places firing into the crowds.
Curfews were imposed on most of the
major camps in the occupied West
Bank; 130 Palestinians were arrested
and seven hospitalized.
In Jerusalem, shopkeepers closed
down their shops in a protest strike.
Hundreds of women marched through
the Old City. Israeli military vehicles
were stoned. Nablus shops were also
closed down. Palestinians stoned a
Zionist police car. There was militant
resistance in Balata camp, outside
Nablus, where Palestinians raised their
flag, which is outlawed, and stoned
military vehicles. Aron, deputy military
governor, was injured by shattering
glass, when his car was stoned.
In Ramallah, school girls initiated a
protest, and classes were suspended
throughout the town. Demonstrators
burned tires in nearby Jalazon camp. In
Al Amari camp, three Israeli soldiers
were injured in clashes with demons-
trators. There were demonstrations in
Al Bireh and Shufat camp. The girls
school was closed down after a Zionist
policeman and a settler were injured.
Three young girls were among those
arrested in this area.
In Duheisha camp, outside Beth-
lehem, there was a huge demonstration.
The Israelis opened fire on _ the
demonstrators, seriously injuring one
Palestinian. A petrol bomb was thrown
at an Israeli bus, and army vehicles
were stoned. In the town of Bethlehem,
students at the university were pre-
vented from entering the campus by the
Zionist forces who feared further
demonstrations.
In Hebron, there were several
demonstrations, and youth stoned
military vehicles. In nearby Al Aroub
camp, demonstrators clashed with the
Israeli forces. Two soldiers were
wounded, and the glass of a military
vehicle was shattered. e
Al Mithag Closed
The True Nature of Israeli ‘Democracy’
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Al Mithagq Daily
On August 12th, the Israeli occupa-
tion authorities again took the 1945
emergency regulations in hand, this
time to ban two Palestinian newspa-
pers, Al Mithaq daily and Al Ahd
weekly, published in Jerusalem. Editor
Mohammed Khatib, who had already
appealed an earlier threat of closure,
immediately stated his intention to
appeal the new military order. He was
initially successful, and an interim
court decision allowed continued
publication until the state prosecution
could marshall its arguments in detail.
The Zionists’ internal intelligence ser-
vice did indeed marshall its forces,
though not any arguments that would
stand up in courts other than those of a
dictatorship or occupying power. On
August 23rd, the Israeli High Court
accepted Shin Bet’s charge that Al
Mithag and AI! Ahd were «threatening
state security» and «operated and
directed by the PFLP». The court
reversed the interim decision, ordered
the two papers to be immediately closed
and revoked Khatib’s publishing
license.
While still being published, Al
Mithag and Al Ahd were subject to the
strictest military censorship, like all the
Palestinian press under occupation. - هو جزء من
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