Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 13)
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- Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 13)
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Sixteen attacks occurred in the oc-
cupied West Bank, five in the occupied
Gaza Strip, and seventeen in the area of
Palestine occupied in 1948. Most
noteworthy was the rise in the number
of military operations carried out in
1948 occupied Palestine, which con-
stituted almost half of all operations in
July. This attests to the increased mili-
tant involvement of the Palestinians
living in the Galilee and Triangle areas.
It emphasizes the unity in struggle of all
the Palestinian people, and their col-
lective adherence to the strategic goal of
liberating Palestine. It also exposes the
falsity of the ‘coexistence’ slogan raised
by the Zionist leadership from the time
they occupied this part of Palestine 39
years ago.
METHODS OF STRUGGLE
Molotov cocktails were used in fif-
teen of the attacks in July. There were
twelve explosions against Zionist
military and economic targets. There
were four stabbings and one shooting.
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Flammable material was used in two
operations. An Israeli car was burned
in Gaza, while large areas of forest and
grassland, belonging to the Jewish Na-
tional Fund (JNF), were burned on
four separate occasions in the last week
of July, in the areas of Jerusalem,
Houla and Afuleh (1948 occupied
Palestine). These fires targeted a main
instrument of the Zionist colonization
of Palestine. Expropriated land turned
over to the JNF becomes Jewish pro-
perty permanently, never to be sold or
disposed of, except by leasing. It is used
exclusively for furthering Zionist set-
tlement and Judaization. The fires of
July swept through 3,500 dunums of
forest and grassland near Jerusalem,
and also destroyed about 2,000 dunums
in the Afuleh and Houla prairies, caus-
ing an estimated $2 million in damages.
«Restoring the damage takes 25
years»
According to the Israeli daily
Haaretz, there have been 400 fires this
Naji Al Ali
year. These have destroyed 4,000
dunums of forests and 30,000 dunums
of grassland, causing damages double
those of last year. Some of these fires
affected Israeli military and economic
installations. At first, the occupation
authorities tried to conceal the causes
of the blazes, but recently there were
admissions that they were ignited for
political reasons. Also, three Palesti-
nians from the Galilee were arrested
while trying to start a fire near Afuleh.
A JNF spokesman acknowledged
that «these are deliberate fires ignited
by anti-occupation forces.» Describing
the damage around Jerusalem, he said,
«We have to wait 25 years for restoring
what has been damaged.» The JNF had
supervised the planting of almost fif-
teen million trees on the hills surroun-
ding Jerusalem over the past forty
years. The losses are estimated in the
inillions of dollars, given that the cost
of a dunum of forest is $600, and $300
for a dunum of grassland. >
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