Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 20)
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- Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 20)
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May 26th, a street of the town was
sealed off, after the throwing of a fire
bomb against the Zionist forces. Also
on May 26th, there were violent clashes
in Gaza and Khan Younis, between
Palestinian citizens and the Zionist
KACH gangs. There was also a
demonstration in Nazareth, protesting
Zionist practices and in support of the
people of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. At a Nablus demonstration, a
Palestinian was killed by the Zionist
troops’ indiscriminate firing.
A highlight of the resistance struggle
in May was the escape of six Palestinian
prisoners from Gaza Central Prison.
The Zionist forces were unable to catch
them, despite imposing a Iengthy siege
on the area and conducting a relentless
search. All roads in the area were closed
and the siege continued. Palestinian
fishermen were prevented from taking
their boats out to fish, in an attempt to
prevent the prisoners from escaping by
sea.
PROTESTING 20 YEARS OF
OCCUPATION
The first week of June, massive
demonstrations erupted throughout the
occupied territories on the occasion of
the 1967 Zionist aggression and oc-
cupation. Thousands participated in
the protests despite the Zionists’ exten-
sive preemptive arrests whereby hun-
dreds of Palestinians were rounded up
in the last days of May. From the first
days of June the Zionist authorities
reinforced their military units in the
West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan
Heights, in anticipation of demonstra-
tions on June Sth, the start of the 1967
war.
On June 4th, the Palestinian
shopkeepers in occupied Jerusalem
began the strike protesting twenty years
of occupation, while youth distributed
leaflets calling on all to join the strike.
Shopkeepers in Ramallah and Al Bireh
also closed, while citizens began street
demonstrations. The Zionist forces
surrounded the Old City of Jerusalem,
and other towns and camps, increasing
street patrols and checkpoints. Citizens
from other parts of Palestine were
prevented from entering Jerusalem by
Car.
On June Sth, there were demonstra-
tions throughout the towns and villages
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of the occupied territories, as the
general strike went into effect. Palesti-
nian flags were raised high in many
places. The Zionist forces were on high
alert. In Nablus, they fired straight into
a large demonstration, killing fifteen-
year-old Azam Arandi, and injuring
another Palestinian. There were many
acts of resistance,and the Zionists call-
ed in more reinforcements.An Israeli
bus was struck by a grenade,and in
Hebron a Zionist patrol was attacked
with a molotov cocktail. Curfew was
imposed on the city after the people
forcibly prevented the Zionists from
entering the Ibrahimi mosque, leading
to a large clash. Stones were thrown at
an Israeli bus at nearby Al Zahirieh
camp.
Demonstrations continued on June
6th. In Jerusalem, the Zionist forces
opened fire on science faculty students
at Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, who were
demonstrating and throwing stones at
Israeli soldiers and vehicles. Two
students were injured and Abu Dis
College was closed for two weeks.This
event sparked more demonstrations in
the West Bank, as in Hebron, where
Islamic College students threw stones at
a military patrol. A curfew was impos-
ed on Nablus and other towns and
camps, and arbitrary arrests continued.
At least six Palestinian citizens were
placed under administrative detention
for three months.
On June 6th, settlers from Kiryat
Arba and Hebron broke into Duheisheh
camp, near Bethlehem, after a settler
was injured by stones thrown at the
vehicle she was riding in near the camp.
Although the camp was surrounded by
Israeli soldiers, the settlers broke
through their lines and _ entered
Duheisheh, firing wildly about and
damaging property. The women of the
camp organized a demonstration pro-
testing the settlers’ attack.
A few days later, a Palestinian youth
was stabbed in the Bethlehem area. In
the night of June 9th, the Israeli forces
raided Duheisheh and were met by
gunfire, although no injuries occurred.
This is the first time the residents of the
camp are reported to have used guns
against the Israeli security forces. A
curfew was imposed on the camp and
scores of Palestinians were arrested.
The Israeli forces searched for those
who fired the shots, but they were faced
by strong resistance. Israeli soldiers
were hit by stones and fired upon. The
Israeli daily Yediot Aharonat carried
the comments of the Israeli who led the
search party into the camp. He said that
the roads had been blockaded by the
residents, with stones stored behind the
barricades to be used against Israeli’
troops.
PROTESTING
DISCRIMINATION
In early June, the students of Al
Ozeir Rummaneh elementary school, in
the part of Palestine occupied in 1948,
went on strike, protesting the failure to
finish the building of a new school. The
students warned the Israeli Education
Ministry that their strike would con-
tinue until the building is finished. Last
year, the people of this village an-
nounced a four month strike protesting
the lack of classrooms in the school.
The school has not been connected to
the electricity or water network, and
lacks playground space.
On June 12th, there were three
demonstrations in the 1948 occupied
land-in Nazareth, the western Galilee
and the Triangle, protesting
discrimination against Arab citizens in
the Zionist state. Thousands par-
ticipated in these demonstrations which
were led by the Heads of Arab Councils
and the Committee to Defend the Land.
A number of Palestinians were arrested
in Nazareth by the Israeli police,
charged with possessing weapons stolen
from the Israeli army, to be used in the
resistance struggle.
Also in mid-June, a Palestinian flag
was found to have been raised over the
Meir paint factory in Petah Tikva, to
the surprise of the management.
Twenty-five Palestinians are employed
at this factory, mainly citizens from the
Triangle. Israeli police began an in-
vestigation into the matter. In the same
period, the Palestinian flag was public-
ly raised in East Jersualem by Palesti-
nian youth who had burned the Israeli
flag.
Palestinian prisoners in Nablus old
prison resumed their strike in mid-June
after it became apparent that the
Zionist prison authorities were not go-
ing to fulfill the pledges they had made
after the hunger strike in March. - هو جزء من
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