Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 30)
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WRNaasn,
' June 3 march in Beirut:
«Down with America, guardian of Israel.»
lines to Beirut remained severed to keep
news of resistance from getting out. On
the local level, an area is cordoned off
after an operation, and the Israelis report
no casualties. They thus also suppress
news of displays of mass rage and of
their own brutality. A good example was
Nmairiyeh, southeast of Saida, which
the Zionists surrounded and placed
under curfew on April 16, after one of
their patrols was ambushed. No Israeli
casualties were reported. Rather para-
troopers stormed the village, made
house-to-house searches, damaging
homes and crops, and prevented the
IRC from entering. Maarakeh, near Sour
(Tyre), was besieged three times in
seventeen days, once for house
searches and twice to disrupt the gather-
ings of the people who shouted anti-
occupation slogans, burned tires and
threw stones at the troops. Also Bis-
sariyeh, south of Saida, was sealed off
after the villagers had confronted the
Israeli soldiers in the streets on April
28th. Five Lebanese civilians were
wounded by the occupiers, many homes
were damaged and the electric supply
station shot out of order. The same day,
Nabatiyeh residents staged a general
strike to protest the Israelis’ having shot
dead two people in their indiscriminate
reaction to a hand grenade attack.
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Ansar, where inmates now number
close to 500, has again become a
battlefield with two escapes reported in
mid-May.
The pattern of confrontation bet-
ween the people and the occupiers was
repeated throughout May and into June.
While terrorizing Ain al Hilweh, the
Zionists were also threatening the
people of Ansariyeh; an 11 year old
Lebanese boy was wounded when
Israeli soldiers fired at houses to warn
against the distribution of leaflets and
posters commemorating martyrs of the
anti-occupation resistance.
When an Israeli soldier was
wounded by a grenade attack in Saida
on May 20th, the occupiers opened fire,
killing a Lebanese civilian and wounding
11 others. On May 22nd, the Zionists
raided Bazouriyeh, east of Sour, arrest-
ing eight villagers. When the people set
up road blocks, an armored personnel
carrier entered the village with soldiers
shooting in all directions, wounding one
man, while ten more villagers were
arrested. The following week, the
orchards around this village were
destroyed.
«lsrael is choking us»
Another sign that relations between
the occupiers and the occupied are any-
thing but good is the new restrictions
placed on travel to and from the South.
As of late April, even those walking
across the occupation lines were
required to have a special permit. When
the road is open, traffic continues to be
stalled for days on end at the single cros-
sing linking the South to the mountains,
Beirut and the north, with continuing dis-
asterous economic effects on the
Lebanese. As stated by a truck driver
who, on April 10th, had been waiting a
full week to enter the South to pick up a
load of fruit: «Israel is choking us». On
June ist, Israeli radio announced the
instatement of strict searches for any-
June 3: Beirut march
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