Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 17)
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gaining official permission.
There were a series of terror attacks
on Palestinian citizens in April, carried
out by Zionist settler gangs in concert
with the official Zionist forces. The
Israeli newspaper Hadashot reported
that settlers blocked traffic on the
Jerusalem-Hebron road near Halhoul
and threw stones at Palestinian-owned
cars. The fascist KACH movement of
Kahana announced that it had
established a special unit for ‘protecting
traffic’ to and from the settlements.
Near the village of Al Tayaseer, a group
of Zionists threw a hand grenade at five
Palestinian children, seriously injuring
them. In Gaza, a nine-year old Palesti-
nian child was kidnapped by three set-
tlers who drove away with him in a car.
Fortunately, the child was able to jump
out of the car and escape. |
The settlers’ activities reached a peak
in mid-April when gangs attacked
Qalqilia, destroying. Palestinian pro-
perty. Other settlers invaded Ramallah,
threatening the residents with their
guns. Settlers also lodged themselves in
Al Aqsa mosque and harassed and
humiliated Palestinians who came to
pray. In mid-April, the Episcopalian
Church in Jerusalem and the Middle
East published a report about the burn-
ing of one of its churches in Akka. The
church demanded an investigation to
determine who had carried out this at-
tack. On the walls of the burned church
had been left slogans like: «Kahana the
Great», «Get out, Christians and
Moslems» and «Death to you, death to
the Pope.»
Settler terror continued into May. On
May 18th, terrorists stabbed to death a
Palestinian child less than eight years
old in Jerusalem. On May 3rd, another
Palestinian had been found dead in the
same city. Two citizens of Gaza were
reported missing, most probably kid-
napped by settlers. The body of Jebril
Abraham Hussein Al Darawish from
Dora was found burned to death in his
Car.
Settlers of the Gush Emunim
movement demonstrated in Jerusalem,
and blocked the entrances to Nablus on
May 9th. They invaded Qalqilia, while
it was surrounded by Israeli troops, and
damaged Palestinian-owned cars and
other property. On May 22nd, settler
gangs stormed the village of Masha,
near Nablus.
In the Gaza Strip, settlers of the
KACH movement attacked the citizens
of Rafah, injuring many of them.
These same gangsters attacked a
Palestinian factory in Gaza, but the
workers fought them off while Israeli
troops looked on. KACH also tried to
storm Gaza city and Khan Younis, but
the citizens stood up to them, and they
were not able to enter. On May 30th,
five young Palestinians were assaulted
by settlers simply because they were in
the area of Ramat Ashoul settlement in
Jerusalem. A Palestinian guarding a
building in Kfar Saba was assassinated
by Zionists.
The Zionist authorities demonstrated
their support to the terrorist gangs by
releasing two Jews, British citizens,
who had shot two Palestinians in
Jerusalem, injuring one of them. Ac-
cording to Al Hamishmar newspaper,
the two British citizens have been
working as engineers in the Israeli
military industry for three years.
The most massive fascist plan was
aborted when a Palestinian boy
discovered a strange object buried near
Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. It ap-
peared to be a time bomb, one of four
found in different parts of the mosque
at a time when thousands were gather-
ing for prayers at the end of the
Ramadan fast. The bombs were timed
to explode successively at two-minute
intervals. There have been many
Zionist attempts to destroy Al Aqsa
before, but this was perhaps the most
horrible because the intent was to kill
thousands of Palestinians as well. For-
tunately, however, the charges were
discovered and people were warned.
BALATA BESIEGED, BUT
STILL RESISTING
Balata camp near Nablus_ was
curfewed and besieged by the Zionist
forces several times during May. On
May 30th, the Zionist authorities
declared the camp, which houses 15,000
people, as a closed area. The Israeli
forces made house to house searches,
arresting more than sixty residents,
aimed to prevent their participation in
the ongoing mass uprising. General
Yahuda Barak, deputy chief of staff,
declared that Balata is one of the main
points of tension and ‘provocation’.
Besides those arrested, 150 citizens were
interrogated by the Zionist forces ac-
cording to Barak who stated that many
weapons had been found during the
search, including knives and _ locally
produced guns.
For a year and a half, Balata has
been repeatedly besieged. Most of the
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young men of the camp have been de-
tained in Al Faraa youth detention
camp or other Zionist prisons. Despite
all this repression, however, the camp
residents are on the frontlines of the
anti-occupation struggle.
On May 3lst, a curfew was imposed
on Balata after an Israeli military vehi-
cle was attacked with a molotov
cocktail. The Israelis used tear gas to
disperse the women of the camp who
defied the Zionists by throwing stones
and demonstrating to protest the
repression: All residents of the camp
Over sixteen years of age (about 2,000
people) were gathered in the school
yard and interrogated by the occupa-
tion forces. Sixty were arrested. The
curfew was extended, yet the people of
Balata demonstrated again on June
2nd. Several of them were injured as
the Zionists shot rubber bullets. The
Zionists blockaded the camp, cutting it
off from other parts of the occupied
West Bank. Still another demonstration
broke out on June 3rd. Camp residents
confronted the occupation forces with
stones and managed to break through
the lines of siege. Several Palestinians
were injured by the Zionists’ gunfire:
In late May, the Zionist authorities
issued deportation orders for two
Palestinian freedom fighters, Jihad
Abdullah of Balata and Abdul Fattah
Naser, chairman of the youth union of
Khan Younis in the occupied Gaza
Strip. They are accused of organizing
anti-occupation demonstrations. @
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