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expressed no surprise at the Zionist
whitewash, noting the many cases of
Palestinians having been murdered by
the Zionists under different pretexts. @
«Hadashot» photos showing PFLP commandos
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Frame 31A: Majid Abu Juma whisked away
Subhi Abu Juma taken from the bus
Ain al Hilweh
Days of Terror
In mid-May, the Zionists mounted their largest single ‘security’
operation in South Lebanon, and one of their most brutal, since the
summer of 1982. For four days, the Palestinian reftugee camp Ain al
Hilweh, near Saida, was under attack. Three camp residents were kil-
led and many others injured or arrested.
Having surrounded the camp with
tanks and armored personnel carriers
on May 15th, several hundred Israeli
troops stormed in at midnight, firing
flares overhead to light their way and
increase the atmosphere of terror. For
five hours, they ransacked homes,
sometimes forcing their way in by
dynamiting off the door. Without warn-
ing, twenty homes were totally blown up,
some with their occupants inside. Two
people were shot in the raid; one died
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instantly and another, a woman, died a
few days later. Over twenty people were
injured by the explosions, including an
old man whose arm was amputated.
Another 150 persons were arrested.
An Israeli military spokesman
claimed the raid was to prevent «ter-
rorist» attacks and that they had confis-
cated arms and other «terrorist mate-
rials». True, the Zionists are terrified of
the daily attacks on their forces in the
South. Yet Ain al Hilweh residents said
that there were no weapons in the camp.
This was confirmed by the statement of
Bernard Mills, assistant director of the
UNRWA in South Lebanon, who said
there was no evidence of the Israelis
having taken arms away. One can sur-
mise that some of the unspecified «ter-
rorist material» was political literature or
nationalist emblems. Moreover, valu-
ables were seized from residents’
homes. The Zionists then covered their
pillage with the catch-all phrase «ter-
rorist material».
Mills also noted that the name given
by the Israelis as the leader of the «ter-
rorist» ring they were trying to break
belonged to a 12 year old boy. The
invaders arrived with a prepared list of
people to be detained, i.e., arrests were
not based on actual finding of arms. One
resident told how the Israelis came to his
home asking for his son who was in
Beirut. Instead, they arrested a younger
son, aged 14. The sum of all evidence is
that this was a terror raid designed to
cow the people of Ain al Hilweh. - هو جزء من
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