Democratic Palestine : 24 (ص 14)
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secondary school students in Jenin, in
the West Bank, stabbed a Zionist
soldier as he attempted to storm the
school with his soldiers.
COMPARISON
Comparing the number of operations
carried out in March with those of
February, it is apparent that there was a
decline in frequency, but a significant
rise in Zionist casualties. In February,
there were 37 operations, leaving one
Zionist dead and 23 wounded. In
March, 16 operations left four Zionists
dead, eight wounded and two missing.
The decline in the number of operations
can be explained in connection with two
factors. One is that military activities in
occupied Palestine often come in
waves. Second Is that the Zionist forces
imposed a state of alert and especially
tight security measures in March, in
anticipation of Land Day. Allin all, the
operations carried out in March were
courageous and of high quality, causing
more casualties to the Zionists than in
the previous month.
APRIL
On April Sth, there was an explosion
on the Haifa-Acca road in the part of
Palestine occupied in 1948. In the oc-
cupied West Bank, there were six
molotov cocktail attacks on Zionist
targets in the first twelve days of the
month - in Jenin, Ramallah, Tulkarim,
Halhoul, Tubas and near Qalgilia. In
the attack near Qalqilia, an Israeli set-
tler was killed when a molotov cocktail
exploded inside the car she was travel-
ing in from her house in Alfi Minache
settlement. Six other passengers were
wounded. This sparked a chain of
barbaric acts by settler thugs who
burned orchards and attacked Palesti-
nians in Qalailia.
On April 17, three molotov cocktails
were thrown at an Israeli patrol near
Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. The
occupation authorities have ordered the
construction of walls up to ten meters
high, around Palestinian camps in the
occupied territories, a decision taken
after molotov cocktails and stones were
repeatedly thrown at Israeli military
patrols. Al Jalazon camp, near
Ramallah, has already been encircled
with such walls, while they are being
built around Duheisheh camp, near
Bethlehem.
The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot
reported that an Israeli soldier, Arih
Albertz, 20 years old, had not been seen
or heard of since April Ist, when he left
his house in Asdod, bound for his
military base in the Golan Heights.
On April 18th, a three-man Palesti-
nian commando group succeeded in
crossing a minefield and electronic
fence to enter northern Palestine. The
revolutionaries ambushed a Zionist
patrol, inflicting heavy casualties in the
ranks of the soldiers. According to
Israeli reports, the electronic fence
alerted the Zionists, and a military
patrol chased the commandos. A battle
ensued between the settlements of
Manara and Yieftah, a few kilometers
south of Khalsa in the Upper Galilee.
An Israeli military spokesman claimed
that all three of the commandos were
killed, while saying that an Israeli
lieutenant and another soldier died.
This was the second cross-border attack
since July 1986, when a PFLP-SSNP
unit succeeded in reaching northern
Palestine, clashing with Zionist troops
and inflicting heavy casualties in their
ranks. General Yosi Peled, commander
of the northern front, stated that an
increase in operations in the «security
zone» (South Lebanon) and North
Palestine should be expected.
Hunger Strike in Zionist Jails
«We think that all this will soon end...» That’s what the spokesman for the Zionist prison administration
told the French Press Agency after the start of the hunger strike by Palestinian revolutionaries on March
25th. However, the strike lasted 20 days, disproving the Zionists’ forecasts.
More than 4,500 Palestinian
militants in 14 prisons went on strike,
protesting the cruel prison conditions
and the physical and psychological tor-
ture to which they are subjected. The
strike was decided on when the prison
administration tightened its iron fist
after the appointment of a new direc-
tor, David Maimon in December 1986,
replacing Rafi Suissa. Maimon set
about revoking the rights Palestinian
prisoners had achieved through long
struggles and great sacrifices, accusing
his predecessor of «compromising ma-
jor principles in seeking calm in the
prisons.»
Maimon is known for his hatred of
Arabs. He has played a big role in ter-
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rorizing the Palestinian and Lebanese
people, as military governor of the oc-
cupied Gaza Strip, and participant in
the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. As
prison director, he is empowered to
organize the prisons and deal with the
prisoners as he sees fit. Maimon is also
known for his sadism and propensity to
use violence. These qualities can be at-
tributed to his inferiority complex as an
Oriental Jew, a community that is
treated as second-class citizens in the
Zionist state. He therefore aspires to
exercise power over the Palestinians to
show his loyalty to the Zionist leaders
who are mostly of western origin.
The current hunger strike is a test of
strength between the strikers and the
prison administration. It is the biggest
since the 1980 hunger strike in Nafha,
when two Palestinian revolutionaries
were martyred and scores seriously in-
jured by prison guards in an attempt to
force-feed the prisoners and break the
strike. The current strike was started on
March 25th by over 1,000 militants in
the prisons of Nablus, Jenin, Ashkelon
and Kfar Youna. Soon more joined in,
bringing the number of strikers up to
over 4,500 in 14 prisons.
The strikers demanded the reduction
of overcrowding in the cells where a
prisoner is confined in an area of less
than 2.5 square meters, as opposed to
six square meters per prisoner in
Europe, a fact which Maimon himself - هو جزء من
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