Democratic Palestine : 10 (ص 12)
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Military Operations Escalate
This spring there began an escalation of military operations against the Zionist occupiers in Palestine,
which was even noted by the Zionist press and authorities. This steady rise of resistance stands as con-
crete evidence that the Palestinian masses under occupation refuse the right-wing’s attempt to put a lid
on the liberation struggle.
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May
The first week of May, acts of resis-
tance were frequent. Every day Israeli
vehicles were hit by stones in various
parts of the occupied West Bank. On
May 4th, an Israeli settler was stabbed in
the Gaza market. On May 6th, a home
made bomb was detonated by remote
control near Qalgilia, as an Israeli bus
passed on the way to Shomron settle-
ment. Though the Israeli radio reported
no damage or casualties, the press
noted that the explosion disturbed the
Israeli authorities for its resemblence to
the method so successfully employed by
freedom fighters in South Lebanon.
On May 11th, a bomb destroyed an
Israeli bus in occupied Jerusalem. It was
timed to go off as US Secretary of State
Schultz met Israeli Prime. Minister
Peres, and was accompanied by two
other explosions in the same area.
On May 14th, an Israeli bus heading
for Kiryat Arba settlement was fired.
upon, injuring one settler. On May 19th,
an Israeli soldier was stabbed in
Jerusalem. On May 22nd, four petrol
bombs were thrown at an Israeli bus
driving between Ariel
Ephraim settlements in the northern part
of the West Bank. On May 28th, a petrol
bomb was thrown at an army post in
Jabaliya camp in the occupied Gaza
Strip.
According to the admissions of a
Zionist spokesman, covering the period
from January through May of this year,
there were 37 armed operations against
Israeli targets in the part of Palestine
occupied in 1948, and 127 in the regions
occupied in 1967. The spokesman also
noted 116 instances of Israeli targets
being hit by fire bombs or stones in the
same five months.
June
Revolutionaries in the Gaza Strip
began the month of June with four oper-
ations in three days: A grenade was
thrown at an Israeli patrol in Gaza;
another was cast at an army patrol
approaching Nusseirat camp. On June
3rd, two Israelis were injured by stones
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thrown at a bus driving through the Strip.
The same day, the Israeli military head-
quarters came near to destruction by a
booby-trapped car, to be detonated by
remote control. However, Israeli sap-
pers dismantled the bomb at the last
minute.
In mid-June, four bombs exploded
in the space of a week. One of these was
at the bus stop of Ramot settlement near
Jerusalem. Another targeted the Israeli
factory, Iskur, at Kiryat Gat near Aske-
lon. Jerusalem Post reported a total of
24 acts of armed resistance in June,
while Hadashot reported 33. Jerusalem
Post noted that the operations appeared
to be mounted locally, using home made
devices.
July
Armed resistance continued apace
in July. On the 11th, two operations were
successfully executed. The first
destroyed an Israeli warehouse in Had-
era. The second targeted a swimming
pool for Zionist soldiers, inflicting losses
not admitted by the Zionist forces. Two
days later, Palestinian revolutionaries
threw a fire bomb at the house of a col-
laborator in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. On
the 14th, a Zionist military car was
attacked with a fire bomb in Kanius
camp, also in the Gaza Strip.
On July 17th, Palestinian
revolutionaries detonated explosive
Israeli police inspect bus stop at French Hill
settlement, near Jerusalem, after mid-June bomb
explosion.
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' charges in the office of the Israeli com-
pany, Tseim, destroying it. This was the
fourth explosion of the kind against
Zionist targets in Haifa in the last two
months. The last one aimed at the
Zionist court in the city.
On the same day, a Zionist police
station was attacked in the village of
Toba, near Nablus. Two days later, a
Palestinian militant attacked a group of
Zionists in Jerusalem; five were
wounded and taken to hospital, while the
young militant was arrested.
On July 18th, explosive charges
were detonated near the Hebrew Uni-
versity. The Israeli radio admitted no
casualties, but the Zionist forces
enacted an arrest campaign. At the
same time, Brigadier Uri Yaron died of
serious wounds inflicted by a freedom
fighter, but the Israeli radio claimed he
died in a car accident.
In three days of mid-July, there
were nine attacks against Zionist military
targets. A Palestinian military spokes-
man announced that a resistance unit
had attacked a military patrol with
machine guns on the 20th, as it was
heading for Karmiel settlement outside
Hebron.
On the 24th, a Zionist military car
was attacked by militants using machine
guns in Al Shajjayeh, destroying the car
and killing or wounding the occupants.
The same day a fire bomb was thrown at
a border guard car near Bani Sheilieh in
the Gaza Strip. On the 27th-28th, there
were three more attacks on the occupa-
tion forces in the Strip. Palestinian
revolutionaries attacked a military patrol
in Jabaliya camp with hand grenades.
Others attacked a military vehicle in
Khan Yunis, while a third attack targeted
a military car in Al Sheikh Ajlin street in
Gaza.
On the 27th, Katyusha rockets were
fired at Kiryat Shimouna settlement,
inflicting losses and starting a fire.
On the 30th, a Zionist terrorist iden-
tified by Israeli radio as Albert Bukhris,
operator of the canteen serving the Nab-
lus military headquarters, was killed in
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