Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 19)

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Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 19)

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Women show pictures of missing relatives
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of persons alive and still being held in
government torture centers. All the
names were neatly categorized with
criminal charges beside each one: drug
related offenses, murder, theft, rape,
sexual molestation, etc. The Lebanese
Communist Party newspaper Al Nida
commented on August 12 that one
gleaned from the commission report that
Lebanon had a completely depraved
society. Missing from the report were
thousands of Palestinians and Syrians
abducted by the government and the
Phalange because of their religion, polit-
ical beliefs, nationality or by whim. The
Committee of the Families of the Disap-
peared charged that the list did not
account for at least 100 of the Lebanese
missing. With the report, the Gemayel
government is now contending that it is
holding no political prisoners and is
defending continued detention of those
on the list as common criminals. Worst
of all, the government is using the report
to stop any further investigation of the
disappeared. A/ Nida, for one, was
expecting general outrage at the con-
tinuation of this masive crime.
On July 14, the publisher and editor-in-chief of A/ Safir,
Talal Salman, was the target of an assasination attempt. He
was shot in the neck and jaw, but fortunately survived.
Israel Out of Lebanon!
By far the most decisive Arab
response to the Israeli elections was the
Lebanese National Resistance Front’s
(LNRF) escalation of military operations
in the occupied South. Two weeks prior
to the Israeli elections, the LNRF esca-
lated attacks against the Israeli occupa-
tion troops at an unprecedented level.
Radio Israel reported on August 6 that
there had been 250 resistance attacks in
the South between April and July.
Israeli desperation over the military
attacks led to a new policy in July where
three Lebanese religious leaders were
expelled across the occupation lines.
The most high-ranking of these was
Saida’s Shiite Islamic judge who was
abducted from his home in the middle of
the night by Lahad’s South Lebanon
Army. He was taken to the occupation
lines, where the Israeli forces expelled
him from the South. Protesting against
the Israeli deportation policy, a general
strike closed down West Beirut along
with southern towns and villages on July
18th.
In the first five days of August, there
were 20 resistance attacks. On August
5, an Israeli armored personnel carrier
was blown up by a land mine in the
Beqaa valley, killing one Israeli soldier
and wounding two others. Many of the
attacks in August have been concen-
trated far to the south, in the Sour area.
In one of these attacks on August 6,
Lebanese fighters triggered a remoite-
controlled explosive device as an Israeli
patrol was passing, wounding three.
Also in the first week of August,
Israeli military positions in the Sour area
were hit twice by Katyusha rockets. The
expressed purpose of the Israeli inva-
sion of Lebanon to begin with, was to rid
the south of Katyusha rockets. The
Lebanese Resistance has
demonstrated that it still has the ability to
target Israeli settlements in the northern
Galilee. Since the war began in June
1982, the Israelis have admitted that 589
of their soldiers have been killed and
over 3,000 wounded in Lebanon.
Radio Israel has blamed the
upsurge in attacks on Shiite religious
leaders in the Sour area and said that
they have called for a holy war. With this
as a pretext, the Israeli army in the first
week of August laid siege to several vil-
lages in the Sour area, and Adloun near
Saida. Residents have been prevented
from receiving food and medical
supplies. Despite these forms of collec-
tive punishment, the Lebanese resis-
tance attacks are continuing at a rate of
4-5 per day.
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