Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 26)
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Palestinian overwhelmed by tear gas at Al Aqsa, October 11th
right-wing Jewish extremists trying to
invade Al Aqsa. Israeli soldiers fired
tear gas, smoke bombs and live bullets
in the air in a confrontation that lasted
nearly an hour. The Palestinians suc-
ceeded in preventing the extremists
from entering the mosque. Fifty Pales-
tinians were seriously injured and
twelve were arrested. In protest, Old
City shops closed.
The same day, demonstrations broke
out anew in Gaza. People burned tires
and blockaded streets. Ten Palestinians
were arrested. The next day, AP wrote
that the «city of 150,000 on the Medi-
terranean Sea... appeared to be under
siege.»
MOTHER SHOT DOWN
On October 12th, there was a big
demonstration in Ramallah, protesting
the occupation troops’ brutality in the
Old City the day before. The Israeli
soldiers opened fire on the demonstra-
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tors, killing Mrs. Enayeh Samir Hindi,
35 vears old and the mother of five, as
she passed by. Scores of Palestinians
were injured, including three women.
Shops in Ramallah and East Jeru-
salem shut down. Some one hundred
high school students were arrested in
Ramallah. Protest demonstrations
broke out in major West Bank and
Gaza towns and camps, and continued
over the ensuing days, in concert with a
general strike. In Bir Zeit, students
marched with a symbolic coffin for the
martyred Palestinian mother, waving
Palestinian flags and chanting anti-
occupation slogans. The occupation
authorities closed Bir Zeit University
for four days. In Al Bireh, women
students staged a sit-in at the Red
Crescent office, protesting the murder
of Mrs. Hindi.
Meanwhile, fifty Palestinian fami-
lies from Kafr Kisan village, near Beth-
lehem, staged a silent demonstration
protesting the occupation authorities’
order to demolish 21 houses, as prepa-
ration for a new Israeli settlement.
Binjamin Bel-Eliezar, former military
governor of the West Bank, said that
the Palestinians have become bolder in
attacking the Israelis. He predicted that
the situation in the occupied territories
would deteriorate further.
SCHULTZ REBUFFED
On October 15th, hundreds of Bir
Zeit students demonstrated against the
three-day visit of George Schultz to
occupied Palestine, setting the tone for
the appropriate Palestinian «welcome»
to this US official.
The student council president said
that «the reception that Jimmy Carter
and others have found here will be
repeated for Schultz,» referring to the
large demonstrations in 1979 against
Carter’s visit. For five days, the occu-
pied territories resounded with cries of
«Down with Schultz» and «Long Live
the PLO» as Palestinians demons-
trated. Shops remained closed in Jeru-
salem and Ramallah. In the 1948
occupied territories, 47 municipalities
staged a two-hour strike, protesting
Israeli repression in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. On October 18th, eight
Palestinian notables boycotted a sche-
duled meeting with the US Secretary of
State.
On October 17th, four Palestinians
were wounded when Israeli soldiers
fired on their car near Khan Younis in
the Gaza Strip. A military spokesman
claimed that they had refused to stop at
a roadblock. Mass demonstrations
continued, and on October 24th, a
Palestinian youth was - seriously
wounded when the Israeli forces
opened fire in Nablus. An Israeli mili-
tary spokesman claimed that he was
throwing stones at the military
governor’s headquarters, and that he
was mentally retarded. The next day,
the occupation authorities ordered the
closure of Hatem Al Tai school in Khan
Younis until November 10th, after a
week of stonethrowing by the students.
Five other high schools in the Gaza
Strip were closed for a week each dur-
ing the month of October,while the
Islamic University was closed for three
days. The military commander of the
central region ordered the closure of the
Palestinian Press Service in Nablus, - هو جزء من
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