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In the first intifada, 18 cows were wanted by the occupation army on charges of threatening "national security", after the people of Beit Sahour bought them with the aim of relying on their production and boycotting the products of the occupying state. The story was covered in the movie "The Wanted 18" by directors Amer Shomali and Paul Kwan.
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On this day in 1987, a popular uprising known as the First Intifada broke out as Palestinians rose up against the violence and abuse suffered under Israeli military occupation and to resist Israel’s encroaching settler-colonialism.
The First Intifada was sparked after an Israeli truck driver rammed through a crowd of Palestinian workers returning to the Gaza Strip, killing four people.
Palestinians brought their rejection of Israel’s brutal and repressive military rule to international attention by carrying out an uprising of collective and unified actions as popular committees and responses emerged.
As part of the resistance, Palestinians undertook peaceful demonstrations, threw rocks at soldiers and tanks, engaged in civil disobedience, tax revolts and commercial strikes, among other actions coordinated by grassroots committees.
The First Intifada was sparked after an Israeli truck driver rammed through a crowd of Palestinian workers returning to the Gaza Strip, killing four people.
Palestinians brought their rejection of Israel’s brutal and repressive military rule to international attention by carrying out an uprising of collective and unified actions as popular committees and responses emerged.
As part of the resistance, Palestinians undertook peaceful demonstrations, threw rocks at soldiers and tanks, engaged in civil disobedience, tax revolts and commercial strikes, among other actions coordinated by grassroots committees.
Israel responded with brutal force as unarmed Palestinians were met with fully equipped Israeli soldiers who used live ammunition indiscriminately on the streets. Reportedly, over one thousand Palestinians were killed, including 237 children and tens of thousands were injured under a specific order to break the limbs of rock-throwing rebels, and about 120,000 were imprisoned.
After heavy-handed Israeli repression, the First Intifada gradually wore off and ended in 1993, but to this day, the uprising continues to be remembered as a time of heroic civil disobedience and rebellion, inspiring movements for the liberation of the oppressed people worldwide.
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After heavy-handed Israeli repression, the First Intifada gradually wore off and ended in 1993, but to this day, the uprising continues to be remembered as a time of heroic civil disobedience and rebellion, inspiring movements for the liberation of the oppressed people worldwide.
CC: redfishstream
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"The United People Will Never Be Defeated"
Arab Revolutionary History via @DeezerMusicBot
Quilapayún – El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
The united people will never be defeated,
the united people will never be defeated...
On foot, singing
because we are going triumph.
Advance now,
flags of unity.
And you will come
marching together with me,
and in that way you will see
your song and your flag flourish.
The light
of a red dawn
now announces
the life which will come.
On foot, fighting,
the people will triumph.
It will be better,
the life which will come
to enamor1
our happiness
and in a protest,
a thousand voices of combat will revolt,
they will demontrate
the song of liberty,
with courage
the fatherland will be victorious.
And now the people
rises up in the fight
with the voice of a giant,
shouting: forward!
The united people will never be defeated,
the united people will never be defeated...
The fatherland is
forging the unity.
From north to south2
people will mobilise,
from the salt flat
hot and mineral
to the southern forest,
united in the fight and the work,
they will go,
they will cover the fatherland.
Now its way
announces the future.
On foot, singing,
the people will triumph.
Now millions
impose the truth,
steely are
the ardent battalions,
their hands are walking,
carrying the justice and the reasoning.
Woman,
with fire and with courage,
now you are here
together with the working man.
And now the people
rises up in the fight
with the voice of a giant,
shouting: forward!
The united people will never be defeated,
the united people will never be defeated...
the united people will never be defeated...
On foot, singing
because we are going triumph.
Advance now,
flags of unity.
And you will come
marching together with me,
and in that way you will see
your song and your flag flourish.
The light
of a red dawn
now announces
the life which will come.
On foot, fighting,
the people will triumph.
It will be better,
the life which will come
to enamor1
our happiness
and in a protest,
a thousand voices of combat will revolt,
they will demontrate
the song of liberty,
with courage
the fatherland will be victorious.
And now the people
rises up in the fight
with the voice of a giant,
shouting: forward!
The united people will never be defeated,
the united people will never be defeated...
The fatherland is
forging the unity.
From north to south2
people will mobilise,
from the salt flat
hot and mineral
to the southern forest,
united in the fight and the work,
they will go,
they will cover the fatherland.
Now its way
announces the future.
On foot, singing,
the people will triumph.
Now millions
impose the truth,
steely are
the ardent battalions,
their hands are walking,
carrying the justice and the reasoning.
Woman,
with fire and with courage,
now you are here
together with the working man.
And now the people
rises up in the fight
with the voice of a giant,
shouting: forward!
The united people will never be defeated,
the united people will never be defeated...
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Solidarity is what keeps us on the right path.