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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:08 pm - Jerusalem Time
Dheisheh.. An Israeli war that does not stop
Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Najeeb Farraj - Residents of Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, are surprised to wake up in a calm morning without a military incursion by the Israeli occupation soldiers, its special units and their police dogs. This is a day referred to as Lebanon, especially since most of the days The week witnessed dramatic events, with the continuation of military operations in the camp, which has an area of no more than one and a half square kilometers, and is home to about 10,000 refugees.
The camp is accustomed to confrontations in every military operation, as the "camp guards" as they are called by the residents, used to face any incursion, and there is always a price for such confrontations with martyrs, wounded and detainees.
The Israeli intelligence officers keep in contact with the young men and their families and threaten them, in practices aimed at revenge, and carried out in reality through storming the homes of these young men and deliberately blowing up their entrances, especially against the activists of the Popular Front.
The father of the young man, Muhammad al-Zaghari, told Al-Quds.com that the occupation forces stormed his house more than once, the last time 3 days ago, with the aim of harassing the family and destroying the furniture of the house, without arresting any of them, indicating that leaflets were distributed in Arabic warning against dealing with activists. Popular front.
During that operation, the occupation soldiers blew up the main entrance to the Ibdaa Foundation, and its director, Khaled Al-Saifi, said that those forces wreaked havoc on the headquarters, and this is not the first time that the institution has been targeted.
During the last ten days, the occupation forces deliberately injured about 10 young men in the feet, especially the knee area, and some of them suffer from lacerations in the bones and nerves, amid fears that they will suffer permanent disability, which happened to more than 60 injured people during the last five years.
Mahmoud Ayyad (27 years old), who was hit by a dumdum bullet in the left knee during clashes that took place in 2016, which led to bone laceration and nerve and artery injury as well. He underwent a number of surgeries that culminated in the amputation of his right leg from the knee. He said that the occupation soldiers And by orders of the Israeli intelligence officer, they deliberately hit the young men on their feet, with the aim of causing them disability, and those officers had previously threatened a number of young men with that.
Ayyad, who was previously arrested for a year and a half, two months prior to his injury, confirms that the occupation soldiers target the activists through the sights of their rifles, with the aim of accurately determining the location of the injury, in order to cause him a serious injury that ultimately leads to his disability.
Since 2015, 9 young men from the camp’s residents, including children and young men, have been killed amid a war of arrests that hardly stops, of whom 50 have been arrested since the beginning of this year. However, this did not prevent the young men from drawing murals in the camp and on its outskirts, including the main street, Jerusalem - Hebron, refers to the necessity of steadfastness, resistance, and adherence to the right of return, perhaps the most prominent of which is the one on which was written at the main entrance to the camp, “Behind the enemy everywhere,” which is the saying quoted from the fighter Wadih Haddad.
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Dheisheh.. An Israeli war that does not stop