Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 12)
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March 1987
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From the first days of February,
there were persistent reports of hunger
spreading in Burj Al Barajneh camp in
particular. On February 8th, the France
Press Agency reported from Beirut that
«escaped refugees (from Burj Al Baraj-
neh) have reported dire conditions,
with little food, no electricity and little
shelter from shelling.» Al Bourj
popular committee asked Moslem
clergymen in Lebanon for a fatwa, or
special religious decree, permitting the
besieged Palestinians in the camp «to
eat, for their survival, the flesh of those
who no longer had the strength to live»
(International Herald Tribune,
« Starving the Palestinian
Camps
Amal’s Last Resort
Nearly twenty weeks have passed since the Palestinian camps in
Lebanon were first subjected to the dirty war waged by Amal and the
sectarian Lebanese Army, with the situation worsening every day.
Palestinians living in the camps of Rashidiya near Tyre, and Burj Al
Barajneh and Shatila in Beirut, have not only faced the horrors of
Amal’s firepower, but also the horrors of starvation.
February 9, 1987). The committee’s
message added that «We have no
alternative as there are no dogs or cats
left.»
As a result of the continuous siege
imposed on the camps, the new enemy
threatening the lives of Palestinian
children is called starvation.This proves
that Amal’s intentions are not only
to disarm the Palestinians in the camps,
but also to starve them to death, in
order to accomplish its goals and those
of its supporters. However, history has
taught all that when Golda Meir denied
the very existence of the Palestinians,
she was proven dead wrong. Likewise,
the attempt of Amal and its backers to
deny life to the Palestinians will be
discredited.
The last half of January was a con-
tinuation of the heavy, destructive
shelling directed against the camps in
Beirut and Tyre. using all the weapons
available in the arsenals of Amal and
the sectarian army: mortars, rockets,
cannons, tanks, heavy machine guns
and sniping rifles. Added to this was a
clear projection of support for Amal by
the Zionist state that intervened with air
raids in mid-January, to aid Amal’s
war Of attrition on Palestinian presence
in Lebanon.
Palestinian women in Yarmouk camp, Syria, sit-in at a mosque to protest the siege of the camps
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