Democratic Palestine : 23 (ص 4)
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Occupied Palestine
Mass Uprising Heads Towards Land Day
«Those Palestinians are
demonstrating against Amal’s siege of
the camps in Lebanon, but they’re
throwing stones at us!» That is what a
Zionist officer told reporters about the
mass demonstrations that broke out all
over the occupied West Bank and Gaza
Strip in February, and are continuing
with full force. The officer may be
‘astonished’ that Palestinians are
throwing stones at the Israelis while
protesting Amal’s continuous siege of
the camps in Lebanon, but the truth he
wants to hide is that the Palestinian
people are also protesting the Zionist
iron fist policy in the occupied ter-
ritories. The other truth being
underscored by the mass uprising is that
the struggle of the Palestinian people is
dialectically interconnected, whether in
Palestine, Lebanon or elsewhere.
The ongoing popular uprising in oc-
cupied Palestine clearly projects our
people’s adherence to their national
identity, their land and their represen-
tative, the PLO. The current uprising is
a continuation of the consistent strug-
gles of our people against the occupa-
tion. In February, the popular uprising
led one newspaper to headline its story
about the demonstrations by saying:
«Israel Lost Control.» The following is
an account of the uprising starting from
February 19th, the day we left off in the
previous issue of Democratic Palestine.
DEMONSTRATIONS
CONTINUE
In the occupied West Bank, Palesti-
nian youth erected roadblocks in the
streets of Ramallah on February 19th.
They threw stones at the occupation
forces who fired tear gas into the crowd
and made arrests. In Nablus, the oc-
cupation army imposed a curfew on
Askar camp after the residents staged a
symbolic funeral for a Palestinian
martyr, a taxi driver named Samih
Ibrahim Kharrousheh who was killed
by the Zionist troops the day before. In
a courageous operation, Samih had
stormed a Zionist patrol near Askar
camp with his taxi, injuring three of the
soldiers. Curfew was also imposed on
Duheisheh camp in the Bethlehem area.
Also on February 19th, the occupa-
tion authorities extended the closure of
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Bir Zeit University for three days and
of Al Najah for one week, in an at-
tempt to reduce the possibility of
demonstrations breaking out. The
Zionists also imposed house arrest on
Dr. Abdel Sattar Qasem of Al Najah
University. They extended the arrest of
Al Fajr journalist, Talal Abu Afifeh,
for another ten days, while sentencing
journalist Hani Abu Ghadhib and
Mohammad Sobeh Abdel Haq from
Nablus to two months imprisonment.
In the occupied Gaza Strip, Palesti-
nian youth erected roadblocks, threw
stones at the occupation forces and
waved Palestinian flags in Rafah and
Khan Younis. Zionist troops shot in-
discriminately, and two Khan Younis
youth were wounded. In Jabalia camp,
which the Israelis have named ‘The
Fearsome Camp’, militant demonstra-
tions erupted, at which the Zionists
imposed a curfew and blocked all en-
trances to the camp.
On February 21st, Zionist soldiers
used tear-gas bombs and shot at
demonstrators in Ramallah and
Hebron, in the West Bank. An Israeli
military spokesman said that one Israeli
soldier was wounded and that a curfew
had been imposed on Nablus. In
Hebron, the occupation forces closed
off the area near the Islamic College
after student demonstrations. About
150 students staged a sit-in inside the
college. In nearby Dura, the occupation
forces dispersed a large demonstration.
In Gaza, a molotov cocktail was
thrown at an Israeli car, destroying it.
MORE UNIVERSITIES
CLOSED
On February 23rd, the occupation
authorities closed down the Islamic
Colleges in Hebron (until March 15th)
and in Gaza (for ten days) after large
student demonstrations in which seven
students were injured and about 131
arrested. An eyewitness said that the
demonstrations erupted when the oc-
cupation forces arrested _ several
students and forced them to stand with
their hands raised. Meanwhile, other
students burned tires and chanted anti-
occupation slogans, at which the
Zionist forces fired water cannons to
disperse them.At the same time, Bir Zeit
and Bethlehem Universities reopened,
while Al Najah remained closed.
Demonstrations continued in Askar
and Al Jalazon camps in the West
Bank; the Zionist forces used tear gas,
trying to disperse them.
ZIONIST MURDERS
On February 23rd, a Palestinian
youth was martyred in the Gaza Strip.
Zionist soldiers shot him, claiming that
he had refused to stop at a military
checkpoint.
In the West Bank, demonstrators
erected roadblocks in Ramallah and
Beit Jala, while demonstrators in Al
Jalazon stoned Israeli settlers’ cars. In
Askar camp, demonstrators threw
stones at Israeli patrols. Zionist troops
were reinforced in Jerusalem after the
heroic bomb attack on the Israeli
border patrol the day before, in the Bab
Al Amoud quarter. The occupation
forces increased the number of check-
points and patrols in Jerusalem’s
streets, while breaking into Palestinian
homes and arresting 200 youth.
Meanwhile, the infamous terrorist
Kahana declared that his KACH
gangsters would start conducting
special patrols in the Bab Al Amoud
quarter. The occupation authorities
threatened to close down schools in the
Bethlehem area and the Gaza Strip in
order to stop the uprising. The military
governor of the West Bank prohibited
seve.al students from returning to Al
Khaider Secondary School in Bethlehem
after their release from Al Faraah
prison, on the pretext that they had in-
cited other students to demonstrate.
In addition to repression in the
streets, Zionist oppression was ap- - هو جزء من
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