Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 25)
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Mass Resistance
September has been a month of
massacres against the Palestinian
people living in dispersion outside their
homeland. Every year, Palestinians
express their oneness in the face of
attempts to liquidate their cause, high-
lighting that the real remedy against
massacres is fulfillment of Palestinian
rights to repatriation and statehood.
This year, Palestinians living under
occupation commemorated the 17th
anniversary of Black September in
Jordan, and the fifth anniversary of the
Sabra-Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
The masses challenged the Zionists’
ban on Sabra-Shatila demonstrations.
In Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Ramallah,
Al Bireh, Nablus and Gaza, they took
to the streets, raising Palestinian flags
and shouting their condemnation of the
occupation. In Balata refugee camp
near Nablus, Zionist soldiers opened
fire on the people, killing a child on
September 15th. Several other civilians
were injured in the ensuing days, and
hundreds were arrested in the West
Bank, Gaza Strip and Galilee. Hebron
University was ordered closed for two
weeks.
The Sabra-Shatila commemoration
reinforced the unity in struggle between
Palestiniansinthe 1967and 1948 occupied
territories - a unity which had also been
seen on September Ist, when West Bank
and Gaza Strip residents joined the
strike called by the Regional Committee
of Arab Municipalities to protest the
Zionist government’s decision to reduce
the educational budget for the Arab
sector.
There were several other demon-
strations during the month, and on Sep-
tember 7th, Bir Zeit University students
suspended classes to mourn the martyrs
of the Israeli attack on Ain Al Hilweh
camp two days before, which killed
over forty people. Also in September,
there were hunger strikes by Palestinian
political prisoners in Bir Al Saba, Tul-
karm, Asqalan and Fara’a prisons.
THE OCTOBER UPRISING
The mass uprising was at a peak
during October. Added to the ongoing
The occupation troops close the road to the Islamic
University in Gaza.
Israeli occupation and _ oppression,
three events played a role in raising the
temperature of the October uprising:
the killing of four Palesti-
nian freedom fighters on October 7th,
the October 11th attempt of Zionist
extremists to storm Al Aqsa mosque,
and US Secretary of State Schultz’s
visit to occupied Palestine. The
occupation troops, for their part, used
live ammunition to try and suppress the
demonstrations.
On October 2nd, an Israeli military
spokesman claimed that the occupation
forces had shot and killed three Pales-
tinians in Gaza for refusing to stop
their car at a checkpoint outside Bureij
refugee camp.
The statement came ten hours after
the incident, the Zionists having
imposed a total news blackout in the
interim. On October 15th, three Israeli
newspapers and the army radio carried
reports that conflicted with the military
spokesman’s version of the incident.
Maariv, Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz
reported the men might have died after
being tortured, before or after the
incident at the roadblock. The brother
and father of two of the martyrs were
quoted by Haaretz as saying, «There
were signs of torture» on two of the
bodies, that one was missing an eye,
and the other’s face was disfigured.
Some of the bullet wounds were in the
front of the bodies, contradicting the
army’s account that they were shot as
they fled. Israeli army radio identified
one of the victims as an escapee from
a Gaza prison, Mossbah Hassan Al
Souri, age 34, saying he might have
been taken into custody and tortured.
As reported by the Palestinian Press
Service, Bureij residents deny that there
were roadblocks in the area that day.
The agency noted that the army origi-
nally reported two Palestinians shot
dead, then changed the figure to three
later (Associated Press, October 19th).
PROTESTING MURDER
The masses’ reaction was quick. On
October 3rd, nearly 5,000 students of
the Islamic University in Gaza went on
strike, protesting the killings. The next
day, demonstrations broke out other
places in the Gaza Strip.
On October 7th, a Palestinian com-
mando group clashed with the Israeli
occupation forces in Gaza. Four Pales-
tinians were martyred, while an Israeli
Shin Bet officer, identified as Victor
Arguan, was killed. The occupation
forces combed the area and arrested a
large number of Palestinians. Angered
by the new killings and arrests, the
people of Gaza staged a general strike
and demonstrations.
On October 9th, a court in Acca
extended the administrative detention
of four Palestinians for chanting
nationalist songs!
On October 10th, 24 Palestinians
were wounded in Gaza as demonstra-
tions continued. Nearly 1,500 gathered
in the city center and set tires ablaze,
while most shops closed down. The
Palestinian Press Service reported at
least thirteen wounded during a
demonstration at the Islamic Univer-
sity; many of them had to be treated on
the spot, because the occupation troops
blockaded the area and prevented the
entry of ambulances.
AL AQSA DEFENDED
On October 11th, the Temple Mount
in the Old City of Jerusalem,site of Al
Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the
Rock, became the scene of a fierce
confrontation between the Palestinian
masses and the Israeli occupation
forces, complementing the week-long
uprising in the Gaza Strip. Zionist
troops savagely dispersed a demonstra-
tion of nearly 2,000 Palestinians who
were blocking the entry of two dozen p>
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