Democratic Palestine : 21 (ص 13)
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the bodies of the student martyrs, so
that their burial would not become
another mass demonstration. In the
night, students managed to recover the
bodies in a daring effort to thwart the
Zionist cover-up, but the next morning
the Zionists reconfiscated them.
That night and the next day, news
spread about the latest Zionist crime,
and demonstrations broke out many
places in the West Bank on December
Sth. There was a general strike in
Ramallah and Al Bireh, and a large
demonstration in Nablus. The con-
frontation increased. Firing indiscri-
minately on demonstrators in Balata
camp outside Nablus, the Zionists
killed another Palestinian youth -Majed
Abu Dira, 14 years old. News of events
also reached imprisoned Palestinian
militants in Ashkelon; they and visiting
family members staged a vocal protest.
On Deceinber 6th, demonstrations
spread throughout the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Demonstrators barricaded
roads, and threw stones and molotov
cocktails against the occupiers. Six
Zionist soldiers were injured. Curfews
were imposed on fifteen towns.
Ramallah was sealed off and declared a
military zone. The two students killed
at Bir Zeit were buried in Gaza, where
large demonstrations broke out. Over-:
all, six Zionist soldiers were injured by
stones that day, while around 90 Pales-
tinians were injured.
The uprising continued on December
7th. Zionist soldiers threw bombs in the
Bir Zeit University campus,killing one
and wounding four. Again, Palesti-
nians with only stones, faced the Zion-
ists’ gunfire and tear gas. Cars carrying
Zionists were stoned all over the West
Bank. In Gaza, a Palestinian youth was
shot in the leg by Zionist soldiers. Also
in the Strip, Jabaliya camp was
declared a military zone.
On this day, the uprising reached the
part of Palestine occupied in 1948.
There was a mass demonstration in
Nazareth, where a Bir Zeit student
delivered a speech. Similar meetings
were held in other places in the Galilee.
In Tel Aviv, the police forcibly dis-
persed a demonstration organized by
the Democratic Front for Peace and
Equality, and the Campus student
organization. One student and one
policeman were injured, while the
police arrested 15 people. There were
also demonstrations at the Hebrew
University’s Jerusalem campus.
Clashes occurred, pitting Palestinian
and leftist Israeli students against
ultrarightist Israelis.
Demonstrations continued in the
occupied territories on December 8th.
Firing on the people once more, the
Zionist forces killed Mohammad Zei-
toun, a 12 year old boy, in Balata
camp. Eight other Palestinians were
injured that day. One of these was a
student shot in the leg as troops burst
into an East Jerusalem school. An
Israeli soldier was injured slightly by
stones and bottles thrown by the resi-
dents of Duheisheh camp near Beth-
lehem. Brigader General Ephrain Sneh,
Israeli ‘civil’ administrator of the West
Bank, ordered the old campus of Bir
Zeit University closed until January
3rd. A commercial strike continued for
the third day in East Jerusalem, and
was also observed in Nablus and
Ramallah. Ramallah and AI Bireh
remained under curfew.
On December 9th, the Zionist
authorities ordered Al Najah University
closed for one week. Strikes and
demonstrations continued and became
increasingly militant in Gaza schools
and camps, where the Israelis showered
tear gas and bullets on junior high
school students. People in the refugee
camps threw stones at passing vehicles
carrying Zionists. Several were
wounded as the Zionists fired into the
crowds. One of these was a 16 year old
resident of Bureij camp. The IDF
entered Shifa hospital in Gaza and
arrested those injured in protests, cau-
sing 140 Palestinian doctors in three
hospitals in the Strip to stage a two-
hour protest strike. Speaking of the
repeated entry into schools by the
occupation troops, an UNRWA
spokesman stated: «Our installations
have been violated repeatedly in Gaza.»
In Duheisheh camp on the West
Bank, a youth was injured when Zionist
soldiers opened fire on a demonstra-
tion. This was the first day the new
campus of Bir Zeit University had been
open since December 4th, and hundreds
of students marched from the campus
to the town, carrying Palestinian flags
and shouting nationalist slogans, while
protesting the closure of the old
campus.
On December 10th, a 15 year old
school girl, Hadiye Al Sussi, was shot
Palestinian youth from Bureij camp hurl stones
at Israeli troops.
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