Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 14)
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Other prongs of this repressive cam-
paign are cutting the water and elec-
tricity supply to many camps, imposing
food blockades, and trying to force
merchants to reopen their shops at the
time designated.
Despite mounting repression, the
momentum towards total civil disobe-
dience remains unbroken. This was
obvious in Call No. 15 which gave a
final warning to those policemen and
village and town councillors who have
yet to resign. In this call, the United
National Leadership said that the moves
so far against those who defy the will of
the uprising are only warnings. There
are more severe actions to come.
Friday demonstration at the mosque
‘Eyewitness Report
Phyllis Bennis, Middle East correspondent for the progressive US biweekly, Frontline, visited occupied
Palestine in the first week of April. Below we record some of her observations about the uprising, concen-
trating on two topics: the role of women and self-sufficiency.
My strongest impression after a fairly short visit to Palestine
is that the uprising has changed things in a way that nothing
since 1948, has done...
The role of women in the uprising has been extraordinary to
see. Women were leading the demonstration from Al Aqsa
mosque when I finally got to see it from the Temple Mount.
They were the ones chanting and carrying the Palestinian flags.
The young men are more vulnerable to immediate arrest and
beating, though it should be noted that as of this last week, the
first women administrative detainees have been taken. There
are about a dozen, and they are anticipating more.
Women have played an extraordinary role in several ways.
One is that in the actual confrontations with soldiers in the
demonstrations, women have consistently played a leading role
- organizing, mobilizing and participating. Second, and in a
certain way more important, the women’s committees which
existed before have grown in the course of the political
mobilization brought about by the uprising. These committees
have been a key part in institutionalizing the uprising. They
play a major role in organizing the popular committees, the
medical relief committees, child-care cooperatives, production
cooperatives, etc.
In the village of Deir Amar in the West Bank, there is a
women’s cooperative which we visited. It now employs 19
women in preserving food - pickles, hot peppers, egg plant, etc.
It serves as a major source of employment for women in the
village. It provides a major market for crops which would or-
dinarily not be able to get to market, especially now. Part of
the Israeli economic strategy in the territories is to prevent the
land from being cultivated and preventing people from making
a living from agriculture; part of that means not allowing
produce to be trucked from town to town or village to village.
Women’s demonstration, Beit Sahour - هو جزء من
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