Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 6)
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- Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 6)
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secutive day of mass demonstrations
protesting the occupation and Amal’s
siege of the camps in Lebanon. There
was a large demonstration in-Ramallah,
which the occupation troops tried to
disperse by firing rubber bullets, real
bullets and tear gas into the crowds.
The demonstrators were also fired on
by Zionist settlers. Meanwhile, Bir Zeit
University students staged a hunger
strike protesting Zionist repression.
In Nablus, Palestinian youth stoned
a passing Israeli car, as people joined in
demonstrations. The demonstrators
clashed with the occupation troops, and
a Palestinian boy was injured. Israeli
troops continued to surround the cities
and camps of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip; there were widespread arrests.
In the Strip, a Palestinian youth was
wounded by gunshot during a
demonstration in Al Maghazi camp
near Khan Younis. A Zionist military
spokesman said that the bullet that had
hit the boy was - you guessed it- from
an «unknown» source! Settlers’ cars
were stoned while passing the camp,
and the settlers blocked the road
leading to the camp. There were also
demonstrations and stoning of enemy
vehicles in Deir Al Balah camp, aid in
the West Bank camps of Jalazon, Al
Amari, Qalandia and Balata.
JERUSALEM RALLY
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered
for a rally in Jerusalem on February
13th, in solidarity with the besieged
Palestinians in Lebanon, and protesting
Zionist oppression. (At the same time
in Amman, Jordan, Palestinian women
had gathered at the Red Cross office, to
sit In protesting the starvation of the
Palestinians in the camps of Lebanon).
On February 14th, demonstrations
continued for the sixth day straight in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as mass
protests also broke out in the occupied
Syrian Golan Heights.
In Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron,
Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Gaza, there
were large demonstrations. The people
stoned the Zionist terror forces and
clashed with them. The Zionist troops
sprayed tear gas and real bullets at the
demonstrators. A Zionist military
spokesman reported the injury of an
army officer by stones in Ramallah. He
also announced the arrest of 18
demonstrators and 10 students at the
Islamic College in Hebron, who had
put up road blocks, burned tires and
stoned the Israeli forces.
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Students in Ramallah and Jerusalem
‘boycotted school. In Nablus, the oc-
cupation forces arrested three
demonstrators. Demonstrations also
continued in Jalazon and Al Amari
camps in the West Bank. As
demonstrations continued in the Gaza
Strip, families staged a sit-in at the In-
ternational Red Cross office, protesting
the continued siege of Palestinian
camps in Lebanon.
Demonstrations continued on
February 15th. Seven Zionist soldiers
were injured when stones hit the bus
they were riding in north of Jerusalem.
There was a large demonstration in
Nablus. In Gaza, molotov cocktails
were thrown at an Israeli Egged bus.
The next day, there were demonstra-
tions in Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus,
Bethlehem, Jerusalem and _ nearby
Jalazon camp, and in the Gaza Strip.
The university in Gaza was closed,
bringing to three the number of
universities closed in a week, not to
mention colleges, and a number of
secondary schools.
Also on February 15th, the Israeli
authorities closed down the Alternative
Information Office in Jerusalem, where
progressive Israelis had issued bulletins
about events in occupied Palestine. The
pretext was that this office is pur-
portedly supporting the PFLP, but the
real reason is that the Zionists cannot
tolerate that Israeli Jews reject Zionism
and broadcast the truth about the
Israeli occupation of Palestine.
On February 17th, demonstrations
continued many places in the occupied
territories for the ninth day inarow. A
girl was wounded by Zionist gunshot in
Gaza, while the occupation troops
closed an elementary school there.
Three Israelis were injured by
stonethrowing. On February 19th, as
demonstrations continued for the
eleventh day straight, two Palestinians
were wounded by the Zionist occupiers.
One of them was a 12 year old girl.
GOLAN DEMONSTRATIONS
February 14th marked the fifth an-
niversary of the Israeli annexation of
the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, and
broad demonstrations were staged in
Majdal Shams and other towns. In
many places, the Syrian flag was raised
and the Israeli flag burned. Army and
police reinforcements were despat-
ched to the Heights. Clashes ensued
with the Golan residents in a number of
places. Three Israeli soldiers were
wounded in a clash in Majdal Shams,
while six policemen and border guards
were injured in clashes with the
residents of Masaada. According to the
Palestinian Press Office in Jerusalem,
two Israeli soldiers were wounded in
Majdal Shams after they meddled with
a girl from the town. The Israeli
authorities imposed a curfew on Majdal
Shams. They tore down the Syrian flags
and closed down the hill where Golan
Heights residents shout through
megaphones to converse with their
relatives in Syria.
On February 20th, Golan residents in
Majdal Shams and Masaada again
clashed with Israeli forces who had
come to make arrests.
PRISONERS’ STRUGGLE
The Palestinian prisoners have not
remained silent while their compatriots
rose up. In mid-January, political
prisoners at Kfar Yuna jail in 1948 oc-
cupied Palestine staged a hunger strike
for basic demands to improve the
deteriorating conditions, such as
removal of the metal sheets over the
windows, adequate ventilation and
lighting, 1 ot water, better food, visiting
between cells and access to newspapers,
etc. They were joined in solidarity by
their comrades in Shatta jail.
In the same period, Ramleh prisoners
staged a two-day hunger strike to pro-
test the wardens’ brutality, denial of
medical treatment, and the transfer of
political prisoners to criminal sections
of the prison.
In Jnaid prison, near Nablus, the
political prisoners include 40 Palesti-
nians who are under six-month ad-
ministrative detention orders. From the
beginning of 1987, the prison
authorities have computer-screened
visitors, preventing the entry of those
who had been sentenced for ‘security’
offenses ‘n the past. This is no rainor
matter since over one-fourth of West
Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians have
served a sentence in Israeli jails since
the 1967 occupation. Scores of friends
and relatives were turned away from
Jnaid. The family of a 22 year old blind
prisoner in solitary confinement,
Mohammad Hussein AI Farrarjeh,
from Duheisheh camp, have not been
allowed to visit him since his arrest in
December.
Conditions for the prisoners in Jnaid
are generally deteriorating. This was
highlighted in a letter sent to the Israeli
prison authorities by the Prisoners’ - هو جزء من
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