August 13th, 2014 The demonstration in the Palestine refugee camp of Qalandia Qalandia is a very militant city. It is the case as there is a wall in front of them and they have check points. It is called camp because those lands were given when they were kicked out of Palestine, but they do not accept to go to other lands, but they seek to return to their home. For that reason they stay in the camps. To those villages or regions are called “camps” because at the beginning they were refugee camps so then they could go and live somewhere else. But the Palestinian exploited ones do not accept but to return to their houses. For that reason they build and live in camps. Almost everyone, everywhere, they have an old key hanged. This refers to the key of their houses in the occupied Palestine. Showing this they want to show that their houses are there and they have the right to come back. In one of the camps in Belen, near the city, the entrance of the camp has a key on the top.

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Entrance of "camp" Aida-Belen

The slogans of the demonstration on Wednesday in Qalandia were against the slaughter in Gaza in particular and against the advance of the occupier in the land and resources. The slogans of the youth were: “Let`s unite Gaza and West Bank, the people decided a popular intifada”, “for our dignity let’s unite all together”, “Let`s the Intifada reach Al-Quds (Jerusalem)”, “They kill us, destroy our houses, they won’t destroy our uprising”, “we are not afraid of dying for our freedom”.

Demonstration and picket in Qalandia against the wall (August 13th, 2014)

The demonstration reached the check point. They are so called “check points, under the military forces and the Zionist policemen. They are called “security points” is not correct. They are check points because the aim is to check, detain, threat, over all to repress each Palestine or visitor who was in West point, obviously with the exception who has a “magic pass” –temporal visas or work visas- which allows you, under the “bless” of the Zionsit State of Israel, to go to the “holly land”.
When the demonstration approaches the "check point" a huge amount of young people who come down from the hills unite. Everyone started throwing rocks at the control tower, and as it was open field, it was not possible to make shields to protect ourself. So ... the cars were used as shields and protection. The occupying army was kind of "moderate". They threw several tear gas bombs in the middle of traffic and to the people crossing the check point, obviously the aim was the young people. After the first tear gas bomb, DFLP leaders left. As everywhere and dozens of battles that I went in this begging of intifada, only the workers, youth, children and women fight.
It's a mismatch, completely unfair. Between the breaks they told me that we have to keep fighting, that the land is not theirs and that "we will return to Jerusalem". Children spread the Palestinian flag and show it to the Zionists saying "we are here, and we're not going away, we will return".
There is a unity feeling. In Gaza and the West Bank the fight is against the Zionist state of Israel. While many political parties, whether they say to be of the left or liberal, expect magic resolutions in Cairo, and while others expect the UN or any bourgeois institution takes some kind of statement, those who fight are the young Palestinians supported by the women, mothers and sisters of the martyrs and the most prisoners fighting alone. They do not accept the two states. The native or Islamists bourgeoisies in the region seems to become blind eye.
A tear gas bomb that falls next to me brings me back to the fight. Cars honk in encouragement to the young brave Palestinian resistance. Traffic helps to protect from the tear gas bombd that Zionist forces throw, which do not wait, regardless of the traffic or anything.
Between picture shot and shot I step by a boy and we talk, he told me, "I have a dream, cross the wall and smoke a cigarette while I see the sunset falling in Al Quds (Jerusalem)". He asked for a photo to be taken and, knowing that to fulfill his dream, denied to most Palestinians, we have to destroy the fascist Zionist state of Israel. But I realize that without the help of the international working class and the region, it would be almost impossible to fight for victory. In the barricade the issue is clear: they do not fight with any leader of any organizations that claim to represent them.

Most of them do not speak English, so between my very basic Arabic and my Catalan comrade who was there with me ... and the youth English we could communicate. They were young fighters of 13 and 14. We looked at the pictures while we were taking. Some of them gave me their facebooks because we were there with them fighting and because they were happy about the photos. One asked what I was doing there and I answered I came to fight with them, but also to show the world their story, the truth of what happens here.

Palestinian children grow up and live fighting against their enemy: wall of apartheid

Check point of the Zionist Army where they control even the smallest detail of the Palestinians who want to go in and out of their homes

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