December 18 2015 After 26 days the Zionists delivered the body of Hadeel Awwad, a 16-year-old girl killed by them "We will avenge the blood of our martyrs" Qalandia-West Bank. Half of this city is a refugee camp, which belongs to East Jerusalem; the other half is part of the West Bank. It is a town next to Ramallah, the capital of the West Bank. This small town is surrounded by the Apartheid Wall, the wall of the ghettos where the Zionist forces terrorize the Palestinians, whether from checkpoints, throwing tear gas 5-6 times a day without any reason and even entering the field or the city armed completely and killing some Palestinian who lives in this area. Qalandia is one of the more combative places, because people coexist with the occupation and the consequences that this brings. the news arrive that Zionists are at last to hand over the body of a young girl, Hadeel Awwad, 15 – 16, killed in Jerusalem by the Zionist soldiers. The funeral is expected to start 4pm o'clock but starts at 6pm. All Qalandia was gathered in the main street of this city, waiting for the moment they bring the martyr to make her funeral and say good bye her. There are no words to explain the outrage one feels before so much hate and injustice. The girl’s brother had been killed more than one year ago, with a shot in the head that left him for 9 months in a coma, and then he died. More than 26 days ago this girl, this young comrade was killed with 7 shots from the chest to the head. Relatives, his mother, their loved ones had to wait for 26 days to be able to say goodbye to her. To be able to say good bye to her as a martyr who fought as she could against the fascist Zionist occupation of Israel, against those true murderers who less than two years ago had taken her brother, and now her, and only on this Friday of rage, four more Palestinians (which makes a total of more than 125 murders since October up to here).  A young person that is at the funeral explained to me: "this happens every day; my best friend was murdered, my brother was arrested and I was shot 7 times in total. We want our land, we want to be able to work, we want to live; they (Zionists, NT) are who will not leave us. Why have we to go out of here, if this is ours?" With his help (he was translating into English for me what they said) I was explained what was happening. The truck with the body of Hadeel arrived to the concentration. It was already dark.  The body is loaded by their loved ones and everybody walk 3 blocks toward the Wall of occupation. They are chanting several slogans; one of them is "We will avenge the blood of our martyrs" and they cursed Israel (they would not say what was said; surely there were insults).  Different political (Hamas and Fatah) parties’ flags fly, but above all the Palestinian flags are displayed. Then we make an about-turn, and go to the mosque. Her loved ones pray and dismiss her. Then we come to the center of the mobilization and this young man tells me that many of them will go near the security post. We go all together; there were hundreds of young people who only wanted to express their anger. This young man says: "It is not only the occupation, occupation means for us the shebabs (young) that we don't have work, we cannot study, we cannot have an amusement; There is no park or square in Qalandia for children to play. If we want to move from city to city it may take hours. And now they say that we Muslims are terrorists, ISIS. All that is a lie, ISIS is not Islamist. We just want to have a life in our Palestine." We arrived at the checkpoint; they quickly set fire to tires. This lights the way a bit. All the young people come together and begin to throw stones at the control tower; we were in the open and didn't have anything that could serve as a shield. The young protesters took advantage of the presence of a few cars that passed by to hide beneath them. The occupying army threw canisters of tear gas and shot rubber bullets to the youth. Two of them are injured, the ambulance takes some time to arrive so several of the youth loaded the first wounded man and began approaching the center of the city to facilitate him to be quickly taken to the hospital by ambulance.  On a break and in the middle of the smoke from the tear gas several young people get around me and ask the boy who helps me to take care of me and tell me "this is ours, are not going to get out of our land, we won't go".  "Oslo Generation", they call these young people; they were born or grew up seeing how these agreements were held in Palestine. The reality today, in spite of the political parties of the PLO to the interior of the West Bank and all of their friends from the different parties of the left internationally saying that the problem is settlements and the two-State solution is possible but returning to 1967’s borders, everyone knows that means living in an open prison. Everyone knows that when you rebel, the Zionist forces imprison and murder you.  The news in the middle of the fight arrives: Nash'at Asfour, a Palestinian from a village near Nablus - Senjil – has been murdered; the fourth Palestinian murdered on this day of wrath that struck throughout the West Bank and Gaza, leaving dozens injured. I don't have details of the 4, only two of them: the man at Senjil and a 21-year-old young from Gaza.  There is a sense of unity. People fight against the Zionist State of Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. Who fight are Palestinian youths supported by working families, mothers, fathers and brothers of the martyrs and of the majority of the prisoners. They do not accept the two-States “solution”. The bourgeoisies and Governments in the region look the other way, as they have done with the Syrian people, or directly supporting Al-Assad in his genocide.  All Palestinians, and at Qalandia in particular, have the "dream" to return to their city, to return to Jerusalem. Between translations and jokes I think, their task is to destroy the fascist Zionist State of Israel; knowing that this is impossible without the unity of those who resist in Syria, Yemen and Lebanon in the first place, and in particular without the help of the world working class, it would be a fight almost impossible to reach victory. At the barricade, the issue is clear: they don't fight with any leader at their head from any of the organizations that claim to represent them. This is seen throughout the West Bank, in Hebron, Nablus, Qalandia and so on. They fight alone and as best they can, they have their energy and their courage as their assets. Today I had the honor of fighting with them, all of us together we could place away a little anger and hatred. Resistance develops, not only in Palestine, and this is part of it.  Pamela Parson Correspondent of the International Worker Organizer