Democratic Palestine : 2 (ص 7)
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two choices: either to cover the financial
deficit, or face demonstrations, strikes
and perhaps widespread unrest, espe-
cially on the upcoming Day of the Land.
While the government does not desire
the second possibility, it would counter
the Likud policy to make meaningful
concessions to the Palestinian municipal-
ities. Moreover, the prevailing economic
crisis in the Zionist entity, and the Lik-
ud’s inability to find solutions, make ful-
filling these demands a difficult task in
any case.
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Prison
Strikes
— a ab oe
Since May 1983, a strike has been go-
ing on in Neve Tertza women’s prison at
Ramle. Twenty militant women prison-
ers refused to work, rejecting kitchen
tasks and serving the prison warden, as
well as work such as sewing. For several
months, they refused to accept their vis-
itors in order to call attention to the se-
riousness of their situation. The strike
was initiated to protest the repression
enacted by the Israeli prison authorities.
Later women in other prisons began so-
lidarity strikes.
In the autumn, the Zionist authorities
tried brute force in order to break the
strike. Police raids into the prison were
stepped up, and clubs and tear gas were
used against the prisoners. This has been
recurrent. In January, additional restric-
tions were imposed in a new attempt to
end the strike. This included the banning
of radio and television viewing for the
prisoners, and the confiscation of books
and notebooks, as well as other personal
property. Moreover, the sun break was
limited to one hour daily; visits of rela-
tives were cut to one every two months,
and the prisoners were not allowed to
correspond with their families through
the Red Cross.
A series of demonstrations have been
held in occupied Palestine to show solid-
arity with the women prisoners and to
protest their ill-treatment at the hands of
the Zionist authorities. Democratic Israe-
li Jews have joined in many of these man-
ifestations. Most recently, a demonstra-
tion was held in front of the prison, called
by the Women Prisoners Society in Na-
zareth, and attended by relatives of the
prisoners, as well as by progressive Israe-
lis from the Committee to Stop the War
in Lebanon. Then on February 12th, the
democratic Israeli organization, Women
Against Occupation, picketed a meeting
of the Tel Aviv police, protesting the
treatment of the Palestinian women pri-
soners.
Hebron jail strike
Prisoners in the jail at Hebron (AI Khal-
il) have been waging a similar strike since
June 1983. They are protesting mal-
treatment by the prison authorities, who
have isolated the prisoners into different
sections and divided the only small yard
into two.
These methods are common in the
Zionist jails. In addition, many prisoners
are subject to being constantly trans-
fered from one prison to another, where-
by the Zionist authorities try to create a
state of confusion and instability among
them.
In Damoun prison for teenagers, bad
conditions of another sort prevail. There,
political prisoners are mixed with crimi-
nals. In so doing, the prison authorities
try to infect the political prisoners with
harmful social phenomena - drugs, theft,
immoral practices, collaborationist ten-
dencies, etc., in order to break their will
and develop more collaborators. These
prisoners are also forced to do hard labor
for long hours. This aims at destroying
their youth, wearing them down physi-
cally as a way of eroding their will to
resist, and their national identity and as-
pirations.
The conditions facing political prison-
ers in the Zionist jails must be further
exposed. All democratic forces, includ-
ing international organizations con-
cerned with human rights, must raise
their voices to condemn the suppressive
acts of the Israelis, and express solidarity
with the prisoners’ courageous resist-
ance.
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