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Wednesday, November 8, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Photos by Debrah Gerner/inspecial to the Kansan
Above: Israeli Defense Forces have blockedaded the Gaza Strip. Gaza Strip closes each day at noon in protest of Israeli occupation. to deter Palestinian uprisings. Above right: A Palestinian market in the Right: Israeli troops have shot Palestinians, including this teen-ager.
Group sees protest in West Bank town
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"At that point, the military came in from all sides and blocked the group so that it had nowhere to go." Gerner said.
Gerner said the Israeli soldiers asked the U.S. citizens to leave and the townsnecle to disperse.
Gerner said some members of the group she was following sat down in the street and refused to leave, citing international law.
After warning the protesters that force would be used, the military moved in and bodily picked them up and threw them against walls of surrounding buildings.
"Several people were hurt, but not badly," Gerner said. "One minister with the group, who was wearing a clerical collar, was taken and questioned for an hour and roughed up pretty badly."
Other members of the group that
nadn'at sat down had their cameras ripped from their fingers as they tried to photograph the actions of the Israeli soldiers.
"People were allowed to take cameras in but not to take pictures," she said. "All of their film was ripped out and their clothes searched."
Gerner said she kept her camera in a skirt pocket, which was not checked by the soldiers.
However, the people of Beit Sahur prompted the U.S. citizens and other foreigners that had accompanied the group to leave, fearing for the group's safety.
"Beit Sahur's people didn't want the Americans to be injured," she said. "We left at around one o'clock, after about five hours."
Gerner said that Israel was taxing the area in which Beit Sahur was located but it had not been using the
money locally, as stipulated by international law for occupied areas.
"The amount of money that is gathered up through taxation is far greater than the amount of money that has been put back in," Gerner said.
Gerner said that this had become particularly problematic recently because the Israeli government had essentially said that money gathered from the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be used to maintain the military presence in those areas.
"The only explanation was that the Israeli expenses in the West Bank and Gaza had gone up and that was taken to mean the expense of maintaining the military forces of the occupation, in particular, dealing with the Intifada, or uprising," Gerner said. "It was at this point that Belt Sahur decided it was going to engage in a tax resistance."
The Israeli government responded to the people of Beit Sahur by declaring the town a closed military zone and imposing a curfew.
"Needless to say, the Palestinians, who object to the occupation, don't really feel that they should be asked to pay for the military presence in their own land," she said.
Palestinians living in the Israeli-controlled Gaza Strip and West Bank began the Infidida, or uprising against the occupation in December 1987.
Gerner said that the last tax bills received by residents of the area were significantly larger than they had been in the past.
"At that point, the Israeli tax officials, assisted by the military, began to confiscate property of people of Beit Sahur," she said.
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