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- Subject: News:Resistance Grows to Pales.Expulsions
- From: nyxfer!ww (Workers World Service)
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- Resistance grows over expelled Palestinians
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- By Sharon Ayling
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- Palestinians in the occupied territories are carrying out mass
- resistance 12 days after Israel expelled 415 people from their
- homeland. The joint leadership of the Intifada (uprising) called
- the protests.
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- The resistance included a one-day general strike that was the
- strongest such action in the five-year revolt.
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- Israeli troops have killed 12 Palestinians since the expulsions.
- The latest as of Dec. 28 was a 15-year-old boy shot dead in the
- Gaza Strip.
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- One million Palestinians remain under curfew in Hebron and Gaza.
- Most of Gaza has been under a 24-hour continuous curfew since
- Dec. 8.
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- As a result, the economy has been completely shut down. Thirty
- thousand Palestinians who would normally travel to Israel for
- work have lost nearly $2.7 million in income.
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- No produce is entering or leaving the Gaza Strip. Farmers have
- been prevented from harvesting their vegetable crops, which are
- in danger of rotting. Heavy rains have caused extensive flooding,
- presenting massive health risks to over 100,000 people in refugee
- camps.
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- Israel's Dec. 17 expulsion of the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians
- was the largest ouster of Palestinians in 25 years. The
- Palestinian men were handcuffed, blindfolded and dumped in
- Israel's "security zone" in southern Lebanon.
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- There they remain, living in tents in the snow and freezing cold.
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- The encampment is dangerously short of food, water, medicine,
- supplies and warm clothing. Israel has refused to allow
- humanitarian organizations to give supplies to the exiles.
- Israeli security forces barred a convoy of food and equipment
- prepared by Palestinians in Israel from reaching the encampment.
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- FOOD SMUGGLED TO REFUGEES
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- However, on Dec. 27, supporters smuggled food into the
- snow-blanketed tent city. After a freezing night, the
- Palestinians were emerging from their tents at daybreak and
- gathering around small fires to melt snow for water, when a
- donkey entered the camp. The donkey carried a skinned calf, peas,
- beans and bread, prompting cheers from the men.
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- They needed the food. The Palestinians said they had already
- distributed their last food rations before the smuggled food
- arrived. Other donkeys carrying supplies also crossed mountain
- trails.
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- The United Nations Security Council condemned the mass
- deportations as a violation of international law and demanded
- that the Palestinians be permitted to return to their homes. But
- the UN has not moved beyond formal condemnation to take effective
- measures.
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- Israeli officials characterized Dec. 27 meetings with UN envoy
- James Jonah in Jerusalem as friendly, even though they told the
- envoy the expulsion order was final. Israel then proceeded to bar
- Jonah from traveling through territory it controls to meet with
- the exiles.
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- Israeli officials said the only recourse they would allow the 415
- Palestinians would be for their families to individually appeal
- the expulsion orders in military tribunals. Such tribunals have
- rarely overturned deportation orders.
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- Israel could not have carried out these expulsions and
- disregarded world condemnation without the consent of its sponsor
- in Washington. The Bush administration's mild statement of regret
- was really a message to Israel that it would continue to be the
- leading recipient of U.S. aid--to the tune of $4 billion a year.
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