Summary
Druze village in Galilee adjacent to Kufr Yasif, whose football team and residents are the other party in Magid Shihade’s central case: the April 1981 match, the fighting that followed it, and the armed attack on Kafr Yassif three days later, carried out — in Shihade’s account — with Israeli military arms, vehicles and equipment while police did not intervene (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.7-9 / printed p.114-116).
Details
- Julis is introduced as “a Druze village”, adjacent to Kafr Yassif, the two villages’ teams meeting on 11 April 1981 in a match that would decide promotion to the upper division of the Israeli football league (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.7 / printed p.114).
- The threatening call to the Kafr Yassif manager the night before “appeared to be from someone in Julis”; after Kafr Yassif scored, Julis fans “started to shout and make threats”, and after Julis won 2-1 its fans attacked Kafr Yassif fans; one man from Julis was stabbed in the mass fighting (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.7 / printed p.114).
- The community Sulha initiative secured a truce with Julis’s leadership, then failed after two days, its committee reporting that influential Druze leaders with strong connections to the Israeli establishment were advising Julis against it (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.8 / printed p.115).
- “Three days after the game, Julis residents attacked Christian residents of Kafr Yassif using Israeli military arms, vehicles,” and equipment, killing two more residents, injuring over 20, and bombing, burning and damaging scores of houses and property (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.8-9 / printed p.115-116).
- In Manna, Julis appears in the military-regime period: ten weapons were confiscated at Julis on 24 January 1949 in searches of Druze villages for smugglers, arms merchants and ‘Infiltrators’ (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.158).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, Kufr Yasif, Kafr Yassif attack, 1981, Druze, Galilee