Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 45)
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- Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 45)
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port was closed for eleven days in early
March in a clear-cut case of collective
punishment, after three consecutively
timed bombs wounded eleven soldiers
of an Israeli patrol entering the harbor,
one of whom later died. The port was
again closed April 3rd and 4th, for «un-
explained reasons», i.e., more punis-
ment for the steady mass and armed
resistance to occupation.
In the context of the wide-spread
protests, the Lebanese National Resis-
tance Front made yet a further escala-
tion of its military operations, that now
average several daily. On April 1st, there
were two attacks on Israeli patrols in the
vicinity of Saida. In the center of the city,
an explosion wounded three soldiers
and wrecked an armored vehicle. The
Israelis sprayed fire in all, directions, .
damaging ten buildings and fifteen cars.
Two days later, there was a road-
side bomb against a patrol in the coastal
highway near Saida, while a RPG attack
in Nabatiyeh wounded seven Israelis
and demobilized two of their armored
vehicles. Three Israelis were wounded
by an explosion at the Litani River bridge
on the coastal highway the same day.
On April 4th, an Israeli military vehicle
was set on fire, causing a number of
casualties. The next day, a grenade
attack on an Israeli patrol in Saida,
injured at least one soldier seriously.
The Israelis exploded a sound bomb to.
frighten the people aiid began firing
indiscriminately, wounding seven civi-
lians. Ten more residents of Saida were
arrested, and all shops ordered closed.
Earlier in the day, the IDF had evicted
families from buildings around the place
they use as a military intelligence and
interrogation center, shooting to speed
the eviction, damaging other houses
nearby and cutting electricity lines.
Confrontation rises at the
Beqaa frontlines
In a close cooperation between the
Lebanese nationalist forces and
revolutionary Palestinian organizations,
attacks on the occupation troops in the
southern Beqaa have been stepped up.
In the last days of March, eight Israeli
soldiers were wounded in a series of
operations in this area. Then, on April
1st, the IDF moved tanks units forward
and bombarded nationalist positions
here for the first time in over a year. The
following days were characterized by
military build-up, intermittent exchanges
of fire between the Syrian and Israeli
forces, and frequent Israeli overflights of
the Beaaa.
Fearing the revived war of attrition
on this front, and its spill-over into the
already resistant South, Israeli Minister
of War Arens divurged from the Israeli
opposition to UNIFIL in the South of
Lebanon, to advocate the stationing of
UN troops along the frontlines in the
southern Beqaa. This attempt to neut-
ralize Syrian support to the anti-occupa-
tion resistance coincides with the Zionist
aim of partitioning Lebanon and isolating
the South in order to annex at least its
water resources.
However, like the Zionist terror
campaign against the masses of the
South, this plan will ultimately fail. The
war of attrition against the occupiers has
become an abiding mass phenomenon,
linking Lebanese and Palestinian free-
dom fighters, linking the heroic struggle
of small southern villages with the
nationalist forces in the Beirut and
Beqaa areas. On this basis, the
Lebanese National Resistance Front
can only continue to escalate its opera-
tions, inflicting ever heavier casualties in
the Zionist ranks. The latest example is
the daring explosion of an Israeli military
headquarters in Deir Kanoun, northeast
of Sour, where at least eight Zionists
were killed and many others injured.
Mass resistance to occupation in the South - هو جزء من
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