Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 26)
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The water, electricity and sewage
systems were ruined to a great extent
and need basic repair and maintenance
work which is impossible in these con-
ditions. Garbage has piled high in the
alleys and squares of the camps,
creating very unhealthy conditions,
especially in the hot weather. Diseases
such as typhus and polio have spread.
Most of the local medical facilities have
been destroyed, and no doctors or
medications are allowed into the
camps. Most schools in the camps have
been destroyed, and students cannot
attend school outside the camps
because of the many incidents of arrest
and abduction.
These inhuman conditions led the
camp population to begin a sit-in in the
main street of Shatila on August 11th.
They declared that the sit-in would
continue until their demands are
fulfilled:lifting the siege, opening the
roads to the camp, allowing all camp
residents to move freely, allowing in
food and building materials, repair of
the electricity, and provision of drink-
ing water. A similar sit-in has begun in
Burj Al Barajneh. On the third day of
the Shatila sit-in, Amal indiscriminate-
ly opened fire, causing chaos. The
camp residents then organized a large
demonstration inside Shatila.
PROVOKING A NEW WAR?
In mid-August, Amal and the «Army
Supporters» (a new force created by
Amal to support the Lebanese Army)
provoked renewed clashes in East
Sidon, near Ain Al Hilweh and Miyeh
Miyeh camps. Added to terrorization
of the Palestinian camps near Beirut
and Tyre, Amal appears ready to ignite
a new round of camp wars to try and
exhaust the Palestinian revolution and
eventually eliminate its presence in
Lebanon. Amal continues to fortify its
positions and concentrate troops in the
Sidon area.
Amal is employing the newly formed
Front for Liberation and Unification to
lend legitimacy to its crimes. The article
of this front’s program, concerning
Palestinian-Lebanese relations, is used
by Amal to justify its war on the camps.
Despite the results of the unifying PNC
session, the program refers to the PLO
leadership as being «deviationist and
capitulationist». This is a tacit declara-
tion of war on the PLO. The program
moreover calls for reigniting inter
-Palestinian fighting in the name of
confronting «the deviationist trend»,
calling for a «corrective move» in the
Palestinian arena.
Objectively speaking, Amal’s war on
the Palestinian presence converges with
the other attempts to subordinate
Lebanon to the US-Israeli plan for the
area, most recently: the assassination of
Rashid Karami, the collapse of the
Lebanese economy, the fascist forces’
drive for partition and recurring Israeli
aggression. Thus, it is in the interests of
Lebanese as well as Palestinian pro-
gressive and nationalist forces to halt
Amal’s war on the Palestinians, as part
of the struggle for an independent,
unified Lebanon. Finally, the Palesti-
nian revolution will not stand with arms
folded in the face of Amal’s attempt to
expel Palestinians from the South.
Rather, the Palestinian revolution is
intent on a joint Palestinian-Lebanese
strugyle to end Israeli occupation, and
the sectarian system. ©
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a com-
munique detailing Amal’s campaign against the Palestinian camps in
Lebanon. The Front called for November 29th this year to be a day
of solidarity with the Palestinian masses in the camps in Lebanon.
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Naji Al Ali
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