CAIRO: The Arab people in the Occupied areas in the Gaza strip and the west bank of Jordan River are keeping up their resistance in various forms to the US-Israeli aggressors’ military occupation, according to Press reports today [July 31], says the New China News Agency (Hsinhua).

It adds: “A general strike has been staged since July 27 in all towns, villages and refugee camps in the Gaza strip. In the towns on the west bank of Jordan River, leaflets were distributed and posters put up calling on the Arab people to close their ranks in the struggle against the Israeli aggressors and asking them not to submit to Israeli intimidation or work in Israeli factories.

The Israeli occupation authorities surrounded the Al-Maghazy refugee camp at night and arrested all the men there. Those arrested were sent to an unknown destination.

It was reported that an Israeli jeep was blown up by Arab militants somewhere in Gaza recently, killing three Israeli soldiers. The Occupation authorities clamped down a curfew on a refugee camp near the scene of the incident and blew up a number of dwellings in the camp, killing all the members of nine families.

The Israeli aggressors have imposed a curfew on all parts of the Gaza strip.

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Groutville, South Africa,] Apartheid yielded before Chief Albert Lutuli, 69, today [July 31] as the African Nationalist leader and life-long opponent of racial segregation was buried in front of 5,000 sorrowing South Africans from every race.

Permits usually required for non-Africans to enter the African reserve here were suspended for the funeral of the scholar and 1960 Nobel Prize-winner, killed by a goods train on a railway bridge at Stanger on July 21.

Many wept as the coffin was lowered after a funeral service at the simple white-washed Mission Church here where Lutuli worshipped for many years. But as the earth started to fall on the coffin the silence was shattered by an unidentified African who seized the loud-speaker microphone and shouted an excited tirade in Zulu to the crowd.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2017

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