Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 19)
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destroying fifteen houses and a mos-
que. The next day, helicopters raided
the area around Maidoun. On January
8th, Cobras straffed Barachit and
Hadatha towns. On January 11th,
Israeli helicopters straffed a 5-km
stretch from Haris to Taire. On
January 28th, phosphorus shells were
dropped on Barachit, followed by
shelling. Then the helicopters returned
and shot rockets at the town’s out-
skirts. One civilian was killed by the
shelling and a number were hospitaliz-
ed.
THE WAR OF HUNGER
A dozen or so villages were besieged
and subjected to food blockades in
January, to punish the people for their
compatriots’ heroic resistance to oc-
cupation. Houla, close to the border
with occupied Palestine, was for all
practical purposes under siege the entire
month. In the initial phase, 15 citizens
were detained, including women and
elderly. Food supplies were also held
back from Markaba and two nearby
villages, as the occupation forces tried
to starve the population into revealing
the names of patriots who had par-
ticipated in operations. A row of
villages on the northern edge of the
‘security zone’ were blockaded for the
first two weeks of the month.
Shopkeepers in the area noted that the
food blockades coincided with an in-
flux of Israeli goods.
In late January, Dafala in the eastern
sector, was twice besieged. In the se-
cond instance, tanks were stationed
around the town, and the Israeli forces
entered, shooting indiscriminately to
terrorize the citizens. For three long
hours, homes were searched, as
helicopters buzzed overhead. In the
same period, Jbaa was besieged, shelled
and deprived of food. Also Yohmor
was surrounded and stormed by Israeli
troops; all citizens were gathered in the
Square and two were arrested. Before
withdrawing, the Israeli occupation
forces destroyed the village’s water
reservoir.
TORTURE AND THUGGERY
In January, like every month of the
occupation, dozens of citizens were
taken for interrogation and detention.
In one instance, on January 11th, the
Israeli intelligence and the SLA arrested
17 women and girls, and 20 men in the
village of Roum. The females were
taken to Khiam detention center, and »
MSaida Roum
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This map does not show all the villages of the South, but is only intended as a guide to locating the places mentioned in the article.
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