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ululating and singing national songs. She
raised a Palestinian flag and marched in
front of the others. All of a sudden, sol-
diers appeared, firing rubber bullets and
tear gas, trying to intimidate the people
and force them indoors. Afterwards,
they imposed a curfew.
The next day, at 2 a.m., soldiers
informed the families that they could
The speech makers were masked, mem-
bers of the PFLP and the Popular Resis-
tance Committee/Khalil Abu Khadijeh
unit. One of them was disguised as a
woman and had his shoes wrapped in
plastic bags to prevent detection by the
enemy. He spoke with great fervor, say-
ing: «Once again, the cowardly bullets of
the Zionist army were fired, taking away
c
to the families of two other «wanted»
youth, telling them: «Hand over your son
or his name will be written on the walls
next to Yasir’s.»
One thing has become clearer to me
these last few days: With the murder of
Yasir, the Shin Bet may have succeeded
in dealing a heavy blow to the popular
resistance in Ramallah, but it has also
Yasir Abu Ghosh second from right, in one of the murals painted by a group of American Jewish women, who visited the West Bank to paint images of
the intifada
bury their sons. So the two comrades
were buried: Yasir in Beitunya, and Raja
in Naalin. Later in the day, a memorial
service was held for Raja in his parents’
home. The following day there was one
for Yasir in his family’s home. Speeches
were delivered, paying tribute to Yasir
and denouncing the Zionists’ cruel
oppression of the Palestinian people.
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the life of two of our comrades... Yasir,
you were always there in the center of the
battlefield; you experienced all the forms
of struggle; you were a teacher and a
leader in the struggle against the Zionist
occupation; and before you fell, you suc-
ceeded in preparing many other com-
rades for this struggle.»
After the murders, the Shin Bet went
poured oil on the fire. One of Yasir’s
friends said something that strikingly
illustrates the common feeling among
them: « Yasir did not die; we will continue
his struggle with more stones, knives and
molotovs, until we reach what he was
fighting for - a free Palestine.»
Democratic Palestine, December 1989

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