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and wounded at the junior school of
Bureij camp. There was a_ large
demonstration in Gaza, and five Pales-
tinians were brought to hospital, having
been severely beaten by the Zionist
troops. In Nazareth, high school stu-
dents went on a sympathy strike with
their brothers in the 1967 occupied ter-
ritories, while women from Rakah (the
Communist Party) staged a sit-in, pro-
testing the shooting of children, and the
occupation as such.
Israeli military sources announced
that 16 settlers had been injured by
stones, and 50 Palestinians arrested - a
gross underestimation: 200 had been
arrested in the Gaza Strip alone; in the
West Bank, there were 30 arrested only
in Duheisheh camp. On December 11th,
Israeli radio said that Palestinians were
being brought to trial in groups of 25,
which attests to the large number
detained since the start of the uprising.
The radio also mentioned that five
students from Sangel secondary school
in the Ramallah area had disappeared
under ‘mysterious circumstances’. A
number of Israeli settlers from Shilo
settlement, located near the school,
raided it. All indications point to the
fact that these students were kidnapped
by the settlers.
Meanwhile, the Labor Party’s
newspaper Davar revealed that the
Israeli army officer thought to have
shot the Bir Zeit students in ‘self-
defense’, was known for his links to
extreme rightist settlers. It was also
revealed that, especially in the
Ramallah area, settlers had joined the
official troops in shooting at demon-
strators, playing the reserve role for
which they have been trained. Haaretz
reported on December 11th, that the
Israeli settlers in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip are in_ possession of
approximately 10,000 pieces of arms,
with permission from the military
authorities or the Interior Ministry.
According to Israeli army regulations,
a firearm carrier cannot use the weapon
unless his/her life is threatened; in such
a case, a warning should be given first
by shooting in the air, then at the feet,
and finally shooting to kill.
As demonstrations continued on
December 11th, the Zionist forces
committed a new double murder. Two
Palestinian girls, Maha Abdul Hadi
and her sister, Nuha, were shot dead by
Israeli soldiers in Tulkarm in the occu-
pied West Bank.
On December 14th, there was a strike
and large demonstration in Jenin. One
youth was wounded in the head by the
rubber bullets fired by the occupation
troops, raising the parallel with the
brutality of the British occupation
troops in Northern Ireland. In Naza-
reth, thousands marched in protest of
the Israeli murder of demonstrators
and for an end to the occupation.
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SOLIDARITY
GOLAN
Of special note was a demonstration
in the Golan Heights on December
13th. Several hundred people marched
in Majdal Shams, raising slogans
denouncing the occupation and the iron
fist policy against the residents of the
occupied territories. A statement was
released expressing solidarity with the
Palestinians in the refugee camps in
Lebanon.
On December 16th, the students of
Al Najah University organized a
demonstration protesting the murders
at Bir Zeit and the occupation authori-
ties’ actions over the foregoing week.
The demonstrators kept the Zionist
troops out of the campus by erecting
stone barricades;they threw stones at
the occupiers and proudly raised the
Palestinian flag. Students at Abu Dis
College of Science and Technology
staged a demonstration and strike,
protesting Zionist brutality and
specifically the demolition of the home
of a local Palestinian.
Although the intensity of mass resis-
tance decreased in the ensuing days, the
repercussions of the uprising continue.
Arrests and other forms of repression
continue. Duheisheh remained under
siege. Al Fajr newspaper was ordered
closed for the last week of December
and the first week of the new year, on
the pretext of its coverage of the upri-
sing. The strictest ‘security’ was
enforced in Bethlehem to ensure that
the world would think Christmas is
celebrated there in a beautiful, mystical
way, free of the blemishes of occupa-
tion; in the preceding days, Israeli
paratroopers raided and searched many
houses in the city. Court proceedings
started, with the Zionist authorities
trying to convict various persons of
‘incitement’ to cover the fact that it is
their occupation itself that incites
unrest and is responsible for the state
terrorism reigning in occupied Pales-
tine. Though dovish Zionists raised the
brutality of the troops in the Knesset,
IN THE
there is no outlook to change in the
Israeli policy. Speaking on Israeli tele-
vision in mid-December, Shmuel
Goren, military governor of the West
Bank, admitted that «the last few days
have been irregular,» but he said that
the Defense Ministry would not con-
sider changing its policy in the occupied
territories: «In no way, shape or form.
We will not change this policy... We
will also strengthen it.» In the course of
the uprising, an Israeli military leader
was asked by a journalist about how the
Israeli army would treat the new phe-
nomenon of Palestinians’ refusal to
disperse, even after the army shoots in
the air or at their feet. He answered,
«This phenomenon is not disturbing,
and we will know how to handle it
properly.» War Minister Yitzhak Rabin
justified the Israeli army’s actions
during the demonstrations by saying,
«The forces have intervened everytime
the disturbances seemed to get dange-
rous and when there was the risk of a
traffic jam.» However, he admitted
that the demonstrators «feared neither
tear gas or bullets.»
Regardless of the Israeli reaction,
this uprising has had an impact that will
become c.earer in the future. Maiitly, it
has shown that neither the Israeli-
Jordanian unofficial cooperation, the
plan for ‘improving the quality of life’
in the occupied territories, nor the Jor-
danian ‘development’ plan have fooled
Our masses or lessened their resistance.
The main question continues to be the
people against the occupation. The
Palestinian masses have fought another
round with the occupiers, gaining
experience and expressing their true
position at a time when not only impe-
rialism and Zionism, but many an Arab
regime, concur on the necessity of
liquidating the Palestinian revolution
and the PLO. The uprising, like the
defense of the camps in Lebanon,
shows the impossibility of the enemy
alliance’s dream. The people cannot be
silenced, and their cry is for genuine
liberation. @
Military Operations
The following is a list of military operations carried out in occupied
Palestine in late November and December.
Three hand grenades were found in
an Israeli bus station in Hertzalia in
1948 occupied Palestine. The Israeli
police defused them and _ arrested
several Palestinians. On December Ist,
two military vehicles were set afire and
burned completely in Jerusalem. On
December 3rd, a factory was set afire
and completely burned down in the
industrial area of Ramleh in 1948
occupied Palestine. The same day, a
hand grenade caused a large explosion
in Tigha Street in Haifa; two Israelis
were injured; the enemy radio at-
tributed the explosion to a gas canister.
On December Sth, three bus stations
were set afire in different quarters of
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