Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 16)
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Zionist Terror and Iron Fist Policy
April was characterized by extensive,
arbitrary arrests in the occupied ter-
ritories in an attempt to suppress the
ongoing mass uprising. An Israeli army
spokesman announced that more than
71 Palestinians had been arrested in the
early days of April. On April 15th,
Defense Minister Rabin announced that
the Zionist forces had arrested more
than 100 people in the Gaza Strip in the
two preceding days. At least ten were
imprisoned in Ansar II detention camp,
without charges being brought against
them. Students were among those
targeted by the arrest campaign. At Beit
Sahour high school in the West Bank,
fifty students were arrested, while seven
were arrested from Hebron University.
On April 13th, twenty Bir Zeit Univer-
sity students were detained. Of these,
nine were placed under administrative
detention for six months. Added to the
nine Palestinians administratively de-
tained in late March, this brings the
total of such detainees to over sixty.
The Zionist courts handed out
sentences to 134 Palestinians during
April, ranging from fines to life im-
prisonment. Moreover, at least five
residents of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip were placed under house arrest,
while five residents of Duheisheh camp
were served with deportation orders.
Arrests continued to rise in May with
the Zionists’ failure to halt the mass
resistance. In the early part of May, 250
students were arrested in Dur, near
Hebron; four citizens were arrested in
Nazareth; five in Jenin; thirty from
Qalqilia, and sixty from Duheisheh. In
mid-May, the Zionist forces arrested
300 students of the Islamic University
in Gaza, and 30 of them were sent to
Ansar II. Arrests continued in the
camps, villages and towns of the oc-
cupied territories after the large May
15th demonstrations.
In May, 202 Palestinians were
sentenced to prison terms ranging from
a few months to forty years. Heavy
fines were also imposed. Thirteen
citizens were arrested without charges
being specified, and house arrest was
imposed on ten Palestinians.
Also in May, two prominent student
activists were expelled from occupied
Palestine by the Zionist authorities.
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One of them was Marwan Barghouti,
chairman of Bir Zeit University Student
Council. The other was Khalil Ashour,
resident of Askar camp, who was a
student leader at Al Najah University.
Reports from occupied Palestine in
May also told of a new form of Zionist
atrocity. Palestinian prisoners in
Nablus prison have been used for
testing the elements of germ weapons.
The prison authorities exposed them to
the effects of drugs which can change
human genetic characteristics. This is
reminiscent of the kind of experiments
made in Nazi concentration camps in
the time of World War II.
HALTING PALESTINIAN
EDUCATION
In a form of collective punishment,
the Zionist authorities have closed a
number of universities and high
schools, hoping to deter students from
participation in demonstrations and
other nationalist activities. As of late
April, Al Najah University had been
closed a total of 102 days during this
academic year. Students at Bethlehem
University had lost 39 teaching days. In
mid-April, Bir Zeit University was
ordered closed for four months. All
universities and many high schools of
the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip
were closed for periods ranging from a
few days to two weeks during April.
DEMOLISHING HOMES
In April, the last remaining house
owned by a Palestinian Arab in the
southeast part of Jabalia quarter of
Jaffa was demolished by the Israeli
police. Ismael Dabbagh had inherited
his house from his father, and his
grandfather had lived there before him.
Though the house was very small in size
and surrounded by Jewish-owned
houses on all sides, the Israeli
authorities had issued an order for its
demolition because it had been distur-
bing the Zionists for 39 years, i.e., since
the 1948 occupation of this part of
Palestine. Ismael Dabbagh had fought
a long legal battle to save his family’s
home, but in the end, all his appeals
were rejected, though he possessed
ownership papers on the house. The
family home was demolished as part of
the Zionists’ long - standing policy of
Judaization, to deprive Palestinians of
living quarters in their homeland, while
bringing in new Zionist settlers to
replace them. In line with the same
policy, the Israeli authorities moved to
evacuate the Palestinian citizen,
Rashad Subhi Al Karaki from his home
in Akaba AI Khaldieh quarter of
Jerusalem, claiming that it belonged to
Jews.
In Um AI Fahem, in the Galilee, the
Zionist authorities destroyed sixty
houses, claiming they were built on
agricultural land. In the Naqab
(Negev), forty houses in the Bir Sabe
area were destroyed on various
pretexts. In the occupied West Bank, a
number of houses were demolished by
the bulldozers of the ‘civil’ administra-
tion department, on the pretext that
they were built without a license.
In Jerusalem, three Palestinian
homes were ordered sealed. They
belong to Hussein Alian, Isam Jandal
and Abdul Nasir Al Huleisa, aJl accus-
ed of staging the 1986 attack on the
recruitment ceremony for the Gevati
Brigade (special Israeli army unit) in
Jerusalem, where the Zionists suffered
seventy casualties.
SETTLER TERROR
The Zionist settlers have played a
prominent role this spring, com-
plementing the Zionist state’s terror
tactics against the Palestinians under
occupation. The failure of the Zionist
security forces to stop Palestinian
commando attacks led the armed settler
movement to demand that the state
impose an even harsher iron fist policy.
After a settler was killed near Qalqilia,
Zionist settlers demanded that the state
take new emergency measures such
as:(1) closing all Palestinian
newspapers;(2) destroying three rows of
houses in the Palestinian camps, adja-
cent to main roads;(3) imposing a
minimum five-year sentence on all
stone throwers; and (4)stepping up
settlement-building. The Council of
Settlers established a working leader-
ship to act against Palestinian national
institutions and to map new strategies
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