Word: balata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later in the week, Gaza's frustration ignited passions about 50 miles away in the West Bank town of Nablus. An angry crowd of nearly 3,000 in the Balata refugee camp threw stones at Israeli border police. A barrage of rubber bullets failed to stop the mob, composed largely of women and youths. The Israelis, who claimed many of the women were wielding knives or sticks, turned to tear gas and real bullets. Four protesters were killed and at least 30 wounded. Demonstrators battled troops for more than five hours. As fiery Arab protests raged through the territories...
...remark was prompted by the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Ramadan Zeitun, who was shot last week during disturbances at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
...temporary roadblock that had been erected by the Israelis. When Israeli soldiers advanced, the students threw stones, and the soldiers responded with tear gas and then bullets. Two students, both of them 22, were killed instantly. The next day a 14-year-old was shot dead at the Balata refugee camp, where three days later Zeitun was killed. Skirmishes flared as soldiers fought running street battles with youthful Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Israelis set up additional roadblocks, checking identity cards and searching for arms...
...shot in the hip. In Gaza City and Rafah, scenes of the most violent rioting, huge rocks were hurled at passing Israeli cars and military patrols. As Israeli troops responded, at least 40 Palestinians were injured by rifle fire. In Nablus, Arab youths barricaded the road outside the Balata refugee camp with a wall of refrigerators. In the Judean Hills, the Haifa-Jerusalem train was brought to a halt by obstacles on the track, then stoned by Arab youths...