Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JERUSALEM--Palestinian protesters set fire to a bus and an Israeli civilian shot and wounded an Arab stone-thrower in clashes in the West Bank yesterday...
...West Bank, Arab reports said seven Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds in clashes with Israeli soldiers. The army said two Arabs were wounded, and soldiers shot three others, including a 10-year-old boy who was in serious condition, in an overnight clash near the village of Burka...
...army announced yesterday that border policeshot and wounded one Palestinian in the leg afterfire bombs were thrown at a patrol. The incidenttook place when a curfew was briefly lifted in theBalata refugee camp near Nablus. Arab reports saidthree were wounded...
Born in the Arab village of Al-Joura, Sheik Yasin has been paralyzed below the neck since age 15 as the result of an athletic accident. He resides with his wife and eleven children in a one-story house in Gaza City. Family members assist him in dressing and eating. Despite his handicap, he runs al-Mujama al- Islami, a community organization that builds mosques and sponsors cultural activities...
...curfew, which affected refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, was extended Friday evening to a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusaleum, the first time such a measure had been used there since Israel seized the sector in 1967. The restriction imposed an uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered...