Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 7)
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- Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 7)
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Friends Association in Nazareth. The
letter noted the maltreatment of
prisoners by prison guards, and the
punitive measures taken after the last
In an attempt to redress the ac-
cumulation of grievances, political
prisoners in Jnaid went on a hunger
strike on January 25th, sparked by the
unprovoked teargassing of prisoners in
their cells. One of the administrative
detainees, who suffers from heart
disease, had to be rushed to the
hospital. Palestinian newspapers in the
hunger strike. It called on the prison
authorities to remove the metal sheets
on the windows of the cells, improve
the food and stop the confiscation of
the prisoners’ personal belong ngs.
occupied homeland published the letter
of this prisoner’s family, asking for
human rights organizations to intervene
to free him, as his life is in danger.
On February 2nd, Palestinian
political prisoners in the Hebron jail
began a hunger strike, to protest the
harassment and torture to which they
are submitted. @
Military Operations
The military operations in occupied Palestine assume particular
significance in the current situation with the intensification of the
enemy alliance’s maneuvers to halt the liberation process in the
region. In January 1987, Palestinian freedom fighters carried out
more operations than in the previous month.
In January, anti-occupation opera-
tions were upgraded qualitatively and
quantitatively. The Zionist enemy
acknowledged the occurrence of 43
military operations, as opposed to 24 in
December 1986. Sixteen operations
were carried out in the part of Palestine
occupied in 1948: the Galilee, Triangle
and Naqab. Four of these were in Tel
Aviv, four in Bir Sheeba, two in Jaffa,
and one each in Haifa, Acca and
Ramleh. In addition, two Zionist set-
tlements, Dan and Metulla, in the up-
per Galilee, were heavily shelled.
In the occupied West Bank, there
were 21 military operations against
Zionist targets. Nine of these occurred
‘in Jerusalem, six in Nablus, two in
Hebron, one in Jenin, and one in
Tulkarem. The other two attacks were
against the Zionist settlements of
Jeolim and Hatikva in the northern
West Bank.
There were six operations in the oc-
cupied Gaza Strip: four in Gaza city
and Shatti camp, one in Rafah, and one
in Khan Younis.
TYPES OF OPERATIONS
The armed struggle of Palestinian
revolutionaries assumed a variety of
forms. There were 14 bombs against
Zionist military and economic targets
and transportation centers. There were
18 fire bomb attacks against Israeli
patrols, and four instances of Israeli
hotels and armored personnel carriers
being burned. On two _ occasions,
Palestinian militants stabbed Zionist
settlers. Another attack was carried out
using an axe. An Israeli train was
derailed, causing injury to the driver
and a mechanic. Zionist military
sources suspected that this was an anti-
occupation attack. There were three
instances of shelling of Zionist set-
tlements in the Galilee.
The anti-occupation operations in
January exhibited increased self-
reliance by revolutionaries in occupied
Palestine, in terms of securing arms and
other materials needed for the armed
struggle. Zionist sources confirm this
tendency, and express concern that an
increasing amount of weaponry is being
stolen from Israeli army arsenals and
channeled to Palestinian resistance
fighters.
EXCEPTIONAL
OPERATIONS
On January Ist, there were three ma-
jor operations. An Israeli armored
personnel carrier was attacked with fire
bombs, as it went from the central sta-
tion west of Jerusalem to Neve Yacoub
settlement on the road to Ramallah. On
the same day, a bomb exploded as a
Zionist sapper was trying to detonate it.
Another bomb exploded in Kafr Saba,
in 1948 occupied Palestine, destroying a
number of buses and causing heavy
casualties.
On January 2nd, a bomb exploded in
the central market of Tel Aviv, and a
12-storey building was burned,
devastating four floors. Seven Zionists
were injured. On January 6th, a hotel
was burned in Beit Hatikva; four
Zionists were killed and 18 wounded.
The next day, there was a fire bomb at-
tack on a lorry station in Jenin. On
January 8th, a bomb attached to the car
of a Zionist intelligence officer, ex-
ploded in Tel Aviv. There was a fire
bomb attack on a border patrol vehicle
in the center of Gaza on January 10th,
and another on a Zionist patrol in
Hebron.
In Jerusalem, two Zionists were
stabbed and seriously injured on January
17th. The next day, a hotel in Carmel
was burned, causing the destruction of
the main hall and one floor. Another
Zionist was stabbed in Jerusalem on
January 28th. On January 24th, a
Zionist contractor was attacked with an
axe while he was supervising the con-
‘struction of highway in Nablus, part
of the Israeli road grill aimed to frag-
ment the Palestinian towns of the West
Bank.
According to a Zionist military
spokesman, anti-occupation operations
in January resulted in the death of five
Israelis and the injury of 36. This is an
underestimation considering the num-
ber and type of the operations. Such
underestimation is not new. Many
casualties of military operations are
written off as victims of car accidents.
This month,the Zionists invented a new
cover-up. On January 9th, a Zionist
spokesman refered to four deaths
caused by extreme cold and the victims
not wearing winter clothes! @
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