Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 27)
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and the director, Mohammad Omeirah,
was detained on charges of having con-
tact to Fatah. According to Palestinian
sources, his wife was also detained.
Nearly five months ago, the Israeli
army encircled Duheisheh refugee
camp, near Bethlehem, with a fifteen-
foot high fence, to prevent stonethro-
wing against Israeli vehicles. In the
current round of uprising, a curfew was
slapped on the camp on October 13th.
However, these measures proved inef-
fective as Duheisheh residents conti-
nued their acts of resistance. On
October 26th, Israeli forces raided the
camp and conducted house-to-house
searches, rounding up several hundred
for identity checks and arresting eigh-
teen of them. The next day, ten others
were arrested. Col. Zeev, an Israeli
commander in the West Bank, told the
army radio, «They (Palestinians) were
coming around the fences and throwing
stones. We can’t put a soldier for every
meter». The curfew on the camp was
extended
KAFR QASEM
REMEMBERED
October 29th was the anniversary of
the 1956 massacre at Kafr Qasem,
where 49 Palestinian civilians were shot
dead upon returning to their village
from the fields at dusk, not having been
informed that a curfew had been
imposed on that, the first day of the
1956 aggression on Egypt.
On October 28th this year, Beth-
lehem University students demons-
trated in memory of the 31st anniver-
sary of this massacre. The Israeli forces
opened fire. Issac Abu Srour, a 22 year
old student, was shot in the head and
hospitalized in critical condition. The
university was ordered closed for three
months.
In Gaza, students erected barricades
and set tires ablaze on October 29th, as
soldiers fired in the air to disperse
them. Shops closed in the city to protest
the demolition of four houses. A
Palestinian reported that Israeli troops
had imposed a curfew at about mid-
night, giving families thirty minutes to
evacuate their belongings before the
houses were destroyed (AP, October
30th). There were also demonstrations
in the West Bank, and new military
checkpoints were set up throughout the
occupied territories. Reinforcements
were sent to a number of towns and
camps.
On October 30th, there was a general
strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
to commemorate the Kafr Qassem
massacre. Issac Abu Srour died of the
wounds he had suffered two days
before. Residents of Aida camp, near
Bethlehem, the martyr’s home,
demonstrated against his killing.
ASSESSMENT
The October uprising encompassed
the 1967 occupied territories with few
exceptions. In the Gaza Strip, the upri-
sing spread to all towns, villages and
camps, spurred on by the intensifica-
tion of Zionist repression following the
military operations in the Strip. In the
West Bank, the uprising was concen-
trated in the Jerusalem and Ramallah
area, based on the effectiveness of the
national institutions and forces, espe-
cially in Ramallah, and due to the
events at Al Aqsa. Besides the students’
active role, various sectors of the
Palestinian people participated in the
uprising - shopkeepers, workers,
women and some clergymen.
The scope and militancy of the upri-
sing confirmed the strength of the
PLO, especially in view of its reunifi-
cation. The PLO’s effectiveness was
seen in the two-day general strike, and
its warning to some Palestinian figures
about the visit of George Schultz. The
PLO’s position against the visit, and
the broad mass response contained the
role of reactionary figures.
The uprising continued into
November despite the broad repression
exercised by the Zionist forces. During
October, well over 600 Palestinians
were arrested; 228 were detained in the
Gaza Strip alone during the first four
days of the uprising. e@
Palestinians rounded up after stonethrowing incident in
Anabta camp.
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