Jamel Bahrini recalls the smell of dust and blood, who reached the strike scene in the capital of Tunisia 40 years ago, having the air, sticking to the air, among the first respondents.
Israel Warplane killed the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization outside Tunis, at the time dozens of people were killed in Israel’s longest air strike.
Neighbors and families ran on the streets, dug with their bare hands, searched for the remaining people.
“On that tree, I found half a body of a martyr, which is still hanging and his blood is still flowing,” now 62, told The Associated Press that he has now gone through the part of the abandoned bomb site on Wednesday.
Bahrini was one of the recent Tunisian people at a memory ceremony, who said the attack was largely in his memories. The mournings read the poster, who reads “from the ocean of Tunisia to the ocean” Gaza“And talked about the 1985 strike in the context of today’s war.
The strike still shapes Israel’s Tunisian perceptions and acts as a touchstone connecting them Palestinians In a two -year war in Gaza.
“We are not just the people who demonstrate solidarity, but we share a common reasons.”
A thunder explosion
In the early hours of October 1, 1985, with a boeing -707 aircraft of six to eight F -15 fighter jets, used as aerial fuel tankers, flew over 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi), which was organized to carry one of the farthest air raids, which was held according to the Izrael.
To reach the site of attack in Hammm Chot city, Israeli jets required several in-air fuel to be filled and a careful route to avoid detection by radar on friendly areas. The operation took 10 minutes and used 1,000 pound bombs, so that the sea shore buildings could be properly targeted, which were believed to be for PLO leadership, communication and military facilities.
According to the Tunisian government provided to the United Nations at that time, the Tunisian government killed 68 people, including 50 Palestinians and 18 Tunisian people, and injured more than 100 people.
Many Israelis remember the time period as an acute battle between their forces and PLOs before placing their arms down in the 1990s. They see distant Tunisia as a side note in a decades long struggle. But in Hammam Chot, Tunisian people see the attack as a significant turn, when their relations with the Palestinian conflict became deep individual.
Israel-Later, Operation “Operation Wooden Leg” was named-Hammam Chot attack was a task of self-defense, in September of the same year, three Israelis on a boat in Cyprus were vented for the murder of three Israelis. He convicted the PLO, an allegation that at that time refused the Palestinian leadership.
A leader survives narrowly
Palestinian leader Yasar ArafatThe one who survived the attack at that time condemned it as a “cowardly massacre”.
Tunisia, who hosted the PLO exiled since the forced departure from Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, called it a violation of its sovereignty and demanded international accountability.
A few days later, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning the strike as a violation of international law and ruled that Tunisia had the right to obtain “proper revaluation” as a result of the loss of human life and physical damage. Even the United States, at that time, did not veto the resolution, an associate from both Tunisia and Israel.
Tahar Sheikh, the head of Tunis Bureau of Palestinian news agency Wafa, remembers that Arafat stands on top of the rubble, removing questions about whether the strike killed him.
He said that it remains a mystery whether his existence was only luck or thanks to a tip from foreign intelligence. Arafat died at a French military hospital in November 2004 at the age of 75, after being ill under the circumstances questioned by Palestinians.
He said, “Arafat had just returned to Tunis, but instead of returning to Hammam Chot, the Palestinian ambassador asked him to go to another suburb of Tunis, La Marsa,” he said. The possibility of dizziness saved his life.
A new war
In Tunisia and in North Africa, the current Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has deepened the solidarity that is angry with Israel, the protest attracts thousands and receives exclusion traction.
The gender memory of the 1985 strike still echoes, which today raises questions about the long -term impact of Israel’s strategies, including the strike in Doha last month, targeting senior officials who are in Katri Rajdhani for talks. Tunisian people were also concerned with air strikes on boats related to Floatilla, an international activist at Tunisia, a port of Sidi Bu, who was preparing to leave for Gaza last month.
The organizers of Global Sumud Flotila – who demanded a symbolic zodiac of human aid, extended a symbolic amount of human assistance – of attacking their vessels. Israeli officials refused to comment on their claims last week, although the US Ambassador to Turkish Tom Barrack mentions Tunisia, which was in the middle of Israel’s countries in an interview earlier this month.
“What is happening in Gaza, the entire Tunisian population has adopted resistance and will continue to embrace it in his veins until the liberation of Palestine,” Bariini, the first respondent said.
Till Thursday, the Israeli Navy had stopped the floatla boats as they contacted the coastal Palestinian region and detained their domestic countries for exile.
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